James Kyung-Jin Lee, associate professor of Asian-American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializes in Asian-American literature. He wrote Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism.

Tat-siong Benny Liew, who is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is associate professor of New Testament at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. His interests include Asian-American history and literature.

Frank Flinn is an adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as a forensic expert on the legal definition of religion, religious organizations, religious finances and various religious controversies, and he has testified concerning Scientology and many other New Religious Movements. Flinn wrote “Scientology: The Marks of Religion,” which examines the […]

Mai-Anh Le Tran, who emigrated at age 10 from Vietnam to the United States, is assistant professor of religious education and Asian-American cultures at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif.

Oliver Wang is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and writes about Asian-American cinema and about music, youth culture, popular culture and politics.

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is a psychology professor emeritus at the University of Haifa in Israel. His areas of expertise include the psychology of religion. He wrote an article titled “Scientology: Religion or racket?” that was published in September 2003 by the Marburg Journal of Religion.

Read a Jan. 14, 2008, New Yorker article about Scientology’s outreach to celebrities.

Read a Feb. 25, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle item about the state superintendent in California urging schools to drop the Narconon anti-drug education program.

Read an April 16, 2008, Boston Herald article (posted by studytech.org) about concerns regarding Scientology’s ties to a proposed curriculum for a taxpayer-funded pilot school in that city.