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.

Min Zhou is a professor of sociology and Asian-American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and she studies Asian immigration to the United States. Her books include, as co-editor, Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader and, as co-author, Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States and Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of […]

Read a May 1991 Time magazine cover story about Scientology. The church took great exception to the article, which went on to receive the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, the Worth Bingham Prize and the Conscience in Media Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Article requires log-in and payment to access.

Read an ABC transcript of a 1992 interview between Ted Koppel and David Miscavige. The interview was said to be the first ever granted by the Scientology leader.

Read a Nov. 1, 2007, CNN story about two Christian pastors embracing elements of Scientology for their congregations.

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

Read a June 15, 2009, Associated Press story (posted by FoxNews.com) about a French trial in which the prosecutor is seeking to have the Church of Scientology banned in that country.

Read a June 17, 2009, Wired.com story about an ad campaign by the Church of Scientology.

Read a June 21, 2009, article from the Tampa Bay Times on the Church of Scientology’s response to allegations made by some of its former members.