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The Church of Scientology
Hugh Urban tells the real story of Scientology from its cold war-era beginnings in the 1950s to its prominence today as the religion of Hollywood's celebrity elite. Urban paints a vivid portrait of Hubbard, the enigmatic founder who once commanded his own private fleet and an intelligence apparatus rivaling that of the U.S. government. One FBI agent described him as "a mental case," but to his followers he is the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind." Urban details Scientology's decades-long war with the IRS, which ended with the church winning tax-exempt status as a religion; the rancorous cult wars of the 1970s and 1980s; as well as the latest challenges confronting Scientology, from attacks by the Internet group Anonymous to the church's efforts to suppress the online dissemination of its esoteric teachings.
Pulp Man's Odyssey
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An Abundant Life
During the years that Hugh B. Brown served in the LDS First Presidency (1961-70), he proved to be one of the most compassionate and tolerant members of the church hierarchy. Shortly before his death, his grandson conducted in-depth, candid interviews that appear in this compilation and constitute a refreshing look at one of Mormonism's best loved leaders. (This is the second, enlarged edition.)
Magia Sexualis
"This book offers a fascinating account of the development of Western sexual magic through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urban focuses on an extraordinary set of historical figures, and his rich analysis illuminates the sexual—and supernatural—undercurrents that have shaped modernity."—Randall Styers, author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Branch Davidians. This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning. Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a particular faith group, providing readers with examples that illustrate larger issues in the study ...
Secrecy
The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. We have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms and personal privacy terms. In this bracing, new work, Hugh Urban wants us to focus these same powers of observation on the role of secrecy in religion. With Secrecy, Urban investigates several revealing instances of the power of secrecy in religion, including nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic; the white supremacist BrüderSchweigen or “Silent Brotherhood” movement of the 1980s, the Five Percenters, and the Church of Scientology. An electrifying read, Secrecy is the culmination of decades of Urban’s reflections on a vexed, ever-present subject.
The Lower Deep
Terror Lurks beneath the waves...In Dame Marie, sleeping villagers walk in the dead of night - they return without memory, naked and soaking from the sea...when they return at all...Dr. Stephen Spence is new to the village, but he has seen Evil before - when the darkest rites of Voodoo nearly cost him his life.But Voodoo has two faces; and the Doctor is beginning to see that only the village Houngan - Voodoo priest - may have medicine strong enough to defeat the forces calling from the cove. Now, Spence must convince the rest of the villagers that unimaginable horrors await them all in The Lower Deep.This nightmare of an ancient civilizations beneath the sea, inviting comparisons to H. P. Lo...
Murgunstrumm & Others
"Murgunstrumm & Others" is a huge retrospective collection of the best horror and weird fantasy stories by master Hugh B. Cave. Originally published in the pulp magazines of the 1930s-1950s, this collection includes stories that originally appeared in the magazines "Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror," "Weird Tales," "Spicy Mystery Stories," "Ghost Stories," "Thrilling Mysteries," "Black Book Detective Magazine," "Argosy," "Adventure," "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Whispers."
