L. Ron Hubbard

Lafayette Ronald "L. Ron" Hubbard, () ( ) yang sering disebut dengan inisialnya LRH, adalah seorang pengarang Amerika dan pendiri Gereja Scientology. Setelah menghimpun karier sebagai penulis, menjadi dikenal karena cerita-cerita fiksi ilmiah dan fantasi buatannya, ia mengembangkan sebuah sistem yang disebut Dianetics yang pertama kali muncul dalam bentuk buku pada Mei 1950.

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Referensi 

 Atack, Jon. A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics, and L. Ron Hubbard exposed. Carol Publishing Group, 1990. , 
 Behar, Richard Pushing Beyond the U.S.: Scientology makes its presence felt in Europe and Canada
 Bromley, David G. "Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion," in Lewis, James R. (ed.), Scientology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.  
 Christensen, Dorthe Refslund. "Inventing L. Ron Hubbard: On the Construction and Maintenance of the Hagiographic Mythology of Scientology's Founder," pp. 227–258 in Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard: Controversial new religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. , , available through Oxford Scholarship Online, 
 Evans, Christopher. Cults of Unreason. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. , 
 Gardner, Martin. Fads and fallacies in the name of science. New York: Courier Dover Publications, 1957. , 
 Jacobsen, Jeff Day, Robert RJ. What the Church of Scientology Doesn't Want You To Know
 Lamont, Stewart. Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology. London: Harrap, 1986. , 
 Malko, George. Scientology: The Now Religion. New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. 
 Melton, J. Gordon. Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America. Taylor & Francis; 1992. 
 Miller, Russell. Bare-faced Messiah: the true story of L. Ron Hubbard. London: Joseph, 1987. , 
 O'Brien, Helen. Dianetics in Limbo: A Documentary About Immortality. Philadelphia: Whitmore Publishing, 1966. 
 Pendle, George. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Orlando, FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. , 
 Reitman, Janet. "Inside Scientology," pp. 305–348 of American Society of Magazine Editors (Ed.) The Best American Magazine Writing 2007. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. , 
 Reitman, Janet. Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. , 
 Rolph, Cecil Hewitt Believe What You Like: what happened between the Scientologists and the National Association for Mental Health. London: Deutsch, 1973. , 
 Rothstein, Mikael. "Scientology, scripture and sacred traditions," in Lewis, James R.; Hammer, Olav (eds.): The invention of sacred tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. , 
 Streeter, Michael. Behind closed doors: the power and influence of secret societies. London: New Holland Publishers, 2008. , 
 Streissguth, Thomas. Charismatic cult leaders. Minneapolis: The Oliver Press, 1995. , 
 Tucker, Ruth A. Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004. , 
 Wallis, Roy. The road to total freedom: a sociological analysis of Scientology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. , 
 Whitehead, Harriet. Renunciation and reformulation: a study of conversion in an American sect. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. , 
 Winter, Joseph A. A Doctor's Report on Dianetics: Theory and Therapy. New York: Julian Press, 1951.

Pranala luar 

Sites run by Church of Scientology International
 Official L. Ron Hubbard site
 Biographical Profile of L. Ron Hubbard
 L. Ron Hubbard: A Chronicle

Publishers' sites
 Author Services Inc. Publisher of L. Ron Hubbard's fiction
 Bridge Publications Inc. Publisher of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology and Dianetics works
 Writers of the Future A contest founded in the early 1980s by L. Ron Hubbard to encourage upcoming fiction and fantasy writers

Further mention of Hubbard
 Bare Faced Messiah by Russell Miller
 Biographical documentation from The New Yorker
 Operation Clambake. Critical material on Hubbard and Scientology
 U.S. Government FBI Files for Hubbard via The Smoking Gun
  – World in Action, Granada TV, directed & produced by Charlie Nairn, 1967.
 Frenschkowski, Marco, L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of primary and selected secondary literature, Marburg Journal of Religion, Vol. 1. No. 1. July 1999, 
 
 
 L. Ron Hubbard  at the Internet Book List
 Hubbard, L Ron  at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
 Hubbard, L Ron   at the Encyclopedia of Fantasy

 
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