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Academic paper: The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement: Scientology Individual as an Ethical Subject, by Ofer Parchev.
Review of European Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2019).
The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement: Scientology Individual as an Ethical Subject | Parchev | Review of European Studies | CCSE
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Abstract
New religion movements are one of the most interesting social phenomena in recent decades. As an alternative communal and individualist way of life, these movements offer a transcendental, non-secular way of life that challenges the values of liberal society while remaining within its legal and normative boundaries. In the course of this paper, and by using an analytical description of Foucault’s assumptions, I will examine the discursive and practical operation of the Scientology Church as a new religion movement that transcends the individual subject. I will describe the themes of Scientology as pastoral techniques, and its neo-liberal subjective constitution as a part of the conservative, normative mechanism of modern Western society, while arguing that they pose, at the same time, a potential ethical alternative that subverts the epistemological boundaries of Western liberal society.
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Direct link to full paper:
https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/download/0/0/40888/43021
The paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License:
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Review of European Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2019).
The Individualist Power and Adaptive New Religious Movement: Scientology Individual as an Ethical Subject | Parchev | Review of European Studies | CCSE
* * * * * BEGIN ABSTRACT * * * * *
Abstract
New religion movements are one of the most interesting social phenomena in recent decades. As an alternative communal and individualist way of life, these movements offer a transcendental, non-secular way of life that challenges the values of liberal society while remaining within its legal and normative boundaries. In the course of this paper, and by using an analytical description of Foucault’s assumptions, I will examine the discursive and practical operation of the Scientology Church as a new religion movement that transcends the individual subject. I will describe the themes of Scientology as pastoral techniques, and its neo-liberal subjective constitution as a part of the conservative, normative mechanism of modern Western society, while arguing that they pose, at the same time, a potential ethical alternative that subverts the epistemological boundaries of Western liberal society.
* * * * * END ABSTRACT * * * * *
Direct link to full paper:
https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/download/0/0/40888/43021
The paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License:
Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0
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