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.

Read a June 29, 2008, Los Angeles Times article about a new private school founded by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. The school has generated some controversy because it uses teaching methods developed by Scientology’s founder and some of its teachers are Scientologists. Its top administrator says the school is secular, not religious.

Studytech.org worked to educate parents, teachers, and the media on Scientology front groups “whose aim is recruiting your children.”

An explanation of Scientology beliefs and practices can be found in “Scientology: The Marks of Religion,” which was written by Frank Flinn, an adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Green Doors looks to prevent and end homelessness in Central Texas and provides services in hopes of accomplishing their goals.