Hugh B Urban

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 academic articles, including a history of the Church of Scientology, published by Princeton University Press in 2012. He received his PhD in history of religions from the University of Chicago. == Early life, education and family == Urban is the son of a psychologist and Pennsylvania State University professor and was brought up in a devout Ep…