About this religious work
Going Clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright, Lawrence Wright is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes “an utterly necessary story” (The Wall Street Journal) that pulls back the curtain on the Church of Scientology: one of the most secretive organizations at work today. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists — both famous and less well known — and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology. At the book’s centre, two men whom Wright brings vividly to life, showing how they have made Scientology what it is today: The darkly brilliant science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, whose restless, expansive mind invented a new religion. And his successor, David Miscavige — tough and driven, with the unenviable task of preserving the church after the death of Hubbard. "That crunching sound you hear is Lawrence Wright bending over backward to be fair to Scientology. Every deceptive comparison with Mormonism and other religions is given a respectful hearing. Every ludicrous bit of church dogma is served up deadpan. This makes the book’s indictment that much more powerful
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Lawrence Wright, Lawrence Wright
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679761631
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Family & Relationships