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The Church of Scientology is a group of interconnected corporate entities and other organizations devoted to the practice, administration and dissemination of Scientology, which is variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement.
Mar 26, 2024 · Scientology, international movement that emerged in the 1950s in response to the thought of L. Ron Hubbard, a writer who introduced his ideas to the general public in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950). He later moved to a more religious approach to the human condition, which he called Scientology.
May 8, 2017 · Scientology. Updated: August 21, 2018 | Original: May 8, 2017. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard—the founder of Scientology—published his bestselling book “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental ...
Feb 8, 2011 · Facebook. New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright explains how he found a number of inconsistencies between documents the Church of Scientology says are official records of founder L. Ron Hubbard's war...
Journalists, politicians, former Scientologists and various anti-cult groups have made accusations of wrongdoing against Scientology since the 1960s, and Scientology has targeted these critics—almost without exception—for retaliation, in the form of lawsuits and public counter-accusations of personal wrongdoing. Many of Scientology's ...
Nov 1, 2011 · The Real Science behind Scientology. It's not what you think. By Michael Shermer. November 2011 Issue. The Sciences. In the 1990s I had the opportunity to dine with the late musician Isaac Hayes,...
Scientology is under special scrutiny in Germany and France, the two countries most affected by contemporary anticult activity fueled by the murder-suicides in 1994 of 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, a French-speaking group that believed in an imminent apocalypse.
