• Hugh Bayard Urban is a professor of religious studies at Ohio State University's Department of Comparative Studies and author of eight books and several...
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  • "practical magic, quantum physics, chaos theory, and anarchism." Scholar Hugh Urban has described chaos magic as a union of traditional occult techniques...
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    religious". In his history of the Church of Scientology, the scholar Hugh Urban describes Scientology as a "huge, complex, and multifaceted movement"...
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    Miscavige, is widely recognized as the effective head of the church. — Hugh Urban : 131-2  The main types of organizations within the Scientology network...
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    in the 1990s and 2000s.: 266–7 : 136  Professor of religious studies Hugh Urban spoke about Scientology's appeal to celebrities in an interview: But then...
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    Miscavige, is widely recognized as the effective head of the church. — Hugh Urban : 131  Church of Scientology personnel are bound by policy as written...
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    through his influence on contemporaries such as Hubbard and Heinlein. Hugh Urban, religious studies professor at Ohio State University, cites Parsons'...
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  • techniques were taught XI°: anal intercourse magical techniques were taught. Hugh Urban, professor of Comparative Religion at Ohio State University, noted Crowley's...
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    Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine...
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    Derrett are skeptical of this claim calling it "highly improbable" and Hugh Urban argues that "It is probable that we will never know the true author and...
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    Hugh (13 May 1024 – 29 April 1109), sometimes called Hugh the Great or Hugh of Semur, was the Abbot of Cluny from 1049 until his death. He was one of...
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  • and that the aides be members of the opposite sex. Religious scholar Hugh Urban, however, concludes that, for Crowley, aides of the same gender as the...
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    esoteric tantric worship traditions. The Shakta tradition believes, states Hugh Urban – a professor of Religious Studies primarily focusing on South Asia, that...
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    "Kamakhya was a new goddess unknown to the Devi herself" (Kakati 1989:38) Urban, Hugh B. (December 2008). "Matrix of Power: Tantra, Kingship, and Sacrifice...
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    embarrassing investigative tactics that the church in fact endorses." — Hugh Urban in The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion : 206  In 1966...
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    their own time, but others had done so before as standard procedure. Hugh Urban wrote it was clear that Hubbard's work had been influenced by Carl Jung...
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    OL 9824980M. Urban, Hugh B. (2011). The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691146089. Urban, Hugh B. (2012)...
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  • Security Group in Washington and then for the National Security Agency." Hugh Urban. (2013). The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion. Princeton...
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    travelling outside it. A 2012 Princeton University Press publication by Hugh Urban asserted that one of Muldoon's most popular books formed the basis for...
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    Religions. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23656-1. Urban, Hugh B. Urban (2008) [2003]. Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study...
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    "Loyal Officers". Religious scholar Hugh Urban writes that the Sea Org is modeled after these Loyal Officers.: 124  Urban also describes the Sea Org, with...
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  • Time and Newsweek on April 7. His final message was widely broadcast; Hugh Urban of Ohio State University described his appearance in the video as "wild-eyed...
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  • of real value. According to author and critic of religion and politics Hugh Urban: Since at least the time of Agehananda Bharati, most Western scholars...
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  • history of the Church of Scientology by Hugh Urban, a professor of religious studies at Ohio State University. Urban discusses the history and teachings of...
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    Paschal Beverly Randolph and Ida Craddock. The religious studies scholar Hugh Urban noted that Fortune was "one of the key links" between early twentieth-century...
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    the MEST universe and confined, by reincarnation, to physical bodies. Hugh Urban of Ohio State University states that these teachings bear similarities...
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    translation is unreliable, though Kripal's interpretation is criticized by Hugh Urban.[need quotation to verify] Ramakrishna's teachings were imparted in rustic...
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  • of the term 'gnostic' by sexual magic groups is a modern phenomenon. Hugh Urban concludes that, "despite the very common use of sexual symbolism throughout...
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  • John Travolta said that the film was not inspired by Scientology tenets. Hugh Urban of Ohio State University notes a number of connections between Scientology...
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    known as Little Saint Hugh or Little Sir Hugh to distinguish him from the adult saint, Hugh of Lincoln (died 1200). The boy Hugh was not formally canonised...
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