2. Dr. M. Darrol Bryant
Professor of Religion and Culture, Renison College, University of Waterloo, Canada

Since first becoming aware of Scientology in the mid-1970s, Dr. Bryant has conducted a lengthy review of the religion. His test for religiosity is an adaptation of the three-pronged approach, which he defines as “a community of men and women bound together by a complex of beliefs, practices, behaviours, and rituals that seek, through this Way, to relate human to sacred/divine life.” Like Dr. Wilson, Dr. Bryant concluded that “Scientology is a religion. It has its own distinctive beliefs in and account of an unseen spiritual order, its own distinctive religious practice and ritual life, it has its own authoritative texts and community-building activity.”