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Book Review Sociolinguistic Studies Guidelines for submission

The Editors welcome articles, reviews and research notes for publication in future issues James R. Lewis and Kjersti Hellesøy (eds.), Handbook of Scientology. Leiden and of Sociolinguistic Studies. Submitted articles are subject to a blind, peer review process. Boston, MA: Brill, 2016, pp. 592, ISBN: 9789004328716. Please adhere to the guidelines below when preparing submissions for the journal.

James R. Lewis and Kjersti Hellesøy have coordinated the efforts of senior and junior Initial submissions scholars of multiple fields and compiled this monumental Handbook of Scientology, Submission of articles to Sociolinguistic Studies should normally be done via the comprising twenty-four chapters, including those by the editors. Such chapters adopt a journal’s website at www.equinoxjournals.com. You will need to register with the variety of methods and perspectives, and address previously uninvestigated, as well as website as an author, and follow the instructions and guidelines relating to submission. often misunderstood or underestimated, aspects of the Church of Scientology. All the Authors who are unable to use this website for on-line submission should contact the chapterseditors are for well-researchedadvice on how to andsubmit original. their manuscripts. This review is focused on a selection of the most Articlesinspiring areand normally innovative. in English (we also accept articles in Spanish, Galician, Portuguese Donald A. orWestbrook’s French) and ‘Researching should not exceed Scientology 8,000 words, and Scientologists inclusive of endnotes in the United and States:references. Methods Appendices and Conclusions’ may be inc (pp.luded, 19-46), but arebased included on thorough in the total fieldwork, word count. investigates the self-perception Authors should of ensureScientologists that all and submissions, proceeds whetherto dismantle first orcommon revised preconceptions versions, are aboutanonymised the Church, to facilitate according blind to reviewing.which, for Authors’instance, namesall affi liatesand in wouldstitutional be clonesaffiliations of the foundershould or appear of the onlyHollywood in the covering celebrities email famously message. (or notoriously) associated with it. Marco Frenschkowski’s Submission of‘Images an article of Religions or book review and Reli is gioustaken toHistory imply inthat the it Workshas not ofpreviously L. Ronald Hubbard’been published (pp. 104-40) or is analysesnot being in considered detail the conceptualisation for publication elsew of majorhere. religions If an author (with is the exceptionpublishing of Islam) a related in Hubbard’sarticle elsewhere, theology. this Bernard fact should Doherty’s be stated. ‘The In Andersongeneral, authors Inquiry are and its Australianasked to submit Aftermath no more 1963–1973’ than one article (pp. 249-78) for review is ain masterful a two-ye arhistorical period. reconstruction of one the most important events that marked, for good and bad, the diffusion and perceptionReview ofprocess Scientology at the Antipodes. Susan Raine’s ‘Astounding History: L. Ron Hubbard’sIf your submission Scientology is Space clearly Opera’ unsuitable (pp. 536-64)for publication reads Scientologyin Sociolinguistic narratives Studies as charac-, you terisedwill bybe apromptly deep continuity notified withby the its Editors.founder ’sIf, activities after the and review creativity process, as ayour science- articlefiction is writer.accepted for publication, you will be asked to submit the manuscript again, incorporating any Hugh revisions B. Urban asked and for, David and G.in aRobertson format ready also for open publication. up new and enlightening perspec- tives Whenby respectively the Editors scru confirmtinising to theyou relevancethat your submissionof secrecy has(‘Secrets, been a cceptedsecrets, forSECRETS! publi- Concealment,cation you should Surveillance prepare aand final Information-Control version of the article in in theacco Churchrdance withof Scientology’, the guidelines pp. 279-99)for contributors and conspiracism available (‘Hermeneutics on the journal’s website.of Suspicion: If your Scientology article includes and anyConspiracism', figures or pp.complex 300-318). tables, Matthew please Charetpay special examines attention yet to another the guidelines important on preparing element and of Scientology,submitting bothartwork. in Hubbard’s time and currently: its conflict with psychiatry (‘The Citizens Commis- sion on Human Rights and Scientology’s War against Psychiatry’, pp. 565-84). Permissions I noted the methodological and copyright diversity in this collection; it ranges from the textual analysis-basedIt is your responsibility and theological to ensure approach that you adopte have dobtained by Frenschkowski, any permissions to the to discussion reproduce of statisticalany part data of another in chapters work. like If ‘Notyour an article Extraordinary contains extracts Group: fro Scientolm otherogists works, in Hungary especially and Germany:figures, tables,Comparative poetry etc.,Survey please Data’ contact by András the authors Máté-Tóth and pub andlishers Gábor before Dániel submitting Nagy (pp. 141-56),the final a studyversion covering to seek thepermission diffusion to of use Scientology their work. in If Hungary primary data(a previously is to be included, uninvesti- gatedresearch phenomenon, participant sonly should discussed have signed from a anconsent ‘anti-cult’ form. perspective) or ‘The Relative Success All ofcontributors the Church who of seScientology: articles are Aaccepte Discussion’,d for publication by Liselotte will Frisk be required (pp. 157-70). to sign a Another copyright notable assignment strength form, is the and variety to confirm of critical that viewpoints their article represented. is original, accurateAny work about(inasmuch Hubbard’s as cannew be religion ascertained is inevitably in research), criticised and for does being not too incl friendlyude any or too libellous critical statements. towards it. This volume does not omit the authoritarian, and even abusive, measures, as

© Equinox Publishing Ltd, 415 The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX. Book Reviews 197 well as the contradictions, that characterise Scientology, while at the same time pointing out how Hubbard’s Church represents an epitome of Western values and tensions. ‘The Price of Freedom: Scientology and Neoliberalism’ by Michelle Swainson (pp. 200-223) addresses reports of hard labour and abusive pay rates experienced by members in the context of neoliberal employment practices. YetSociolinguistic another chapter, aimed at Studies ‘Deconstructing the Scientology “Monster” of Popular Imagination’Guidelines (Erin Prophet; for submission pp. 227-48), points out misconceptions about, and biased accounts of, the Church. In my opinion, the coexistence in Thethe Editorssame monograph welcome articles, of two re equallyviews and well-researched research notes and for puplausibleblication studies in future like issues Swain- son’sof Sociolinguistic and Prophet’s, Studies far from. Submitted representing articles a arecontradiction, subject to a blind,is a healthy peer review reminder proces ofs. the inexhaustiblePlease adhere richness to the guidelines and irreducible below when ambi preparingguity of thesubmission multifaceteds for the phenomenon journal. of Scientology. Initial I also submissions appreciated the fact that Scientology scholarship is extended to cover its relationshipSubmission with, of articlespresence to in, Sociolinguistic and treatment Studies by, the should(new) media, normally including be done detailed via the and convincingjournal’s websiteanalysis atof www.equinoxjournals.com.the film The Master (directed You Paul will Thomas need to Anderson, register with 2012), the as wellwebsite as of theas an documentary author, and follow Going theClear instructions (directed and by Alexguideline Gibney,s relating 2015). to ‘Scientologysubmission. in PaulAuthors Thomas who Anderson’s are unable Theto use Master this website (2012)’ for by on-lineJohanna submissi J.M. Petscheon should (pp. contact 360-80), the and ‘Theeditors Going for Clearadvice Documentary: on how to submit A Matter their manuscripts. of Framing’, by Benjamin E. Zeller (pp. 381- 95) are Articles excellent are contributions normally in English to a new (we assessment also accept of Scientology. articles in SLikewise,panish, Galician, it is praise- worthyPortuguese that several or French) studies and digshould deeper not exceedinto matters 8,000 ofwords, gender inclus andive sexuality of endnotes within and the movement,references. asAppendices well as the may phenomena be included, of but disaf are fiincludedliation and in the schism, total word to which count. speci fic sections Authors of Lewis should and ensure Hellesøy’s that all edited submissions, volume are whether dedicated. first or revised versions, are anonymised I have three to minorfacilitate criticisms, blind reviewing. the third Authors’being in namesfact a complimentand institutional in disguise. affiliations First, whileshould occasional appear only typographical in the covering errors email are message.inevitable, especially in a work of this magni- tude, Submission it is annoying of anto seearticle ‘neccessity’ or book review [sic], or is ‘extend’ taken to instead imply thatof ‘extent’ it has nottwice previously in the same chapter,been published to read about or is notdocuments being considered made ‘pubic for ’,publication that the printing elsewhere. press If was an inventedauthor is by Gutenburg,publishing ora related alternative article spellingselsewhere, of this ‘Al factQaeda’ should on be the sta ted.same In general,page. Second, authors aresome chaptersasked to overlap submit inno content, more than which one isarticle repetitive for review if one in reads a two-ye the wholear period. book from cover to cover. Finally, the title chosen by Lewis and Hellesøy for their impressive volume is over- modest.Review The process ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-15) does provide a general overview of Scientology’s historyIf your and submission doctrines, is precededclearly unsuitable by an accu for publicationrate and useful in Sociolinguistic chronology (pp.Studies x-xx)., you The basicswill beof Scientologypromptly notified are given by the by Editors. some contributors If, after the asreview a framework process, yourfor their article speci is fic research.accepted But for thispublication, book is younot willreally be a asked Handbook to submit of theScientology manuscript: it again, is, rather, incorporating one of the any revisions asked for, and in a format ready for publication. most advanced, multidisciplinary, and thorough investigations of Hubbard’s religion, When the Editors confirm to you that your submission has been accepted for publi- covering an impressive amount of previously uncharted ground, and bound to remain a cation you should prepare a final version of the article in accordance with the guidelines must-read for the years to come for anyone interested in Scientology, as well as in for contributors available on the journal’s website. If your article includes any figures or extending the scholarship thereupon. The depth of the insights expressed in some of the complex tables, please pay special attention to the guidelines on preparing and submitting studies the volume contains, as well as the solidity and richness of the empirical data artwork. employed to draw critical conclusions, will hardly be paralleled or surpassed in the short run. The volume, considered as a whole in its variety and quality, is unique. Perhaps Permissions and copyright something like Scientology: Extending the Boundaries of Scholarship, or Scientology: It is your responsibility to ensure that you have obtained any permissions to reproduce New Frontiers of Scholarship would have been a more accurate title. any part of another work. If your article contains extracts from other works, especially

figures, tables, poetry etc., please contact the authors and publishers before submitting the final version to seek permission to use their work. If primary data Stefanois to be included, Bigliardi research participants should have signed a consent form.Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane All contributors whose articles are accepted for publication will be required to sign a copyright assignment form, and to confirm that their article is original, accurate (inasmuch as can be ascertained in research), and does not include any libellous statements.

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