Osborne went on to highlight several aspects of Scientology that she believed added to its attraction. One of these aspects was Hubbard's claim that the technology could end war. In a statement first printed in 1965 but periodically reproduced for years afterword, Hubbard announced the world has an optimistic five years left, a pessimistic two.
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From Slogans to Mantras
Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era (Religion and Politics)
by Stephen A. Kent
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Maintains that the failure of political activism led many former radicals to become involved in such groups as the Hare Krishnas, Scientology, Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the Jesus movement, and the Children of God, and argues that numerous activists turned from psychedelia and political activism to guru worship and spiritual quest both as a response to the failures of social protest and as a new means of achieving social change. [book cover].
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Cults, Nineteen sixties, Protest movements, Religious life, Nineteen seventies, Counterculture, Student protesters, History, Cultes, Mouvements sociaux, Contestation, Vietnamkrieg, Histoire, Années soixante-dix (Vingtième siècle), Vie religieuse, Sectes, Protestbewegung, Contre-culture, Jeunesse, Manifestants étudiants, Années soixante (Vingtième siècle), Vietnam war, 1961-1975, protest movements, United states, religion, 20th centuryPlaces
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October 2001, Syracuse University Press
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From slogans to mantras: social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam War era
2001, Syracuse University Press
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From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era (Religion and Politics)
October 2001, Syracuse University Press
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