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Scientology

noun

  1. new religion that began as a set of ideas and practices written by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: From the stem of Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciō (“to know”), + -ology.

  1. A cult with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

    “Werner Erhard's highly successful est cult is partly derived from Scientology. Erhard had some experience with Scientology in 1969. Then he worked for a while in Mind Dynamics, itself an offshoot of Jose Silva's Mind Control.”

    “Est (Erhard Seminars Training) has been a singularly successful synthetic derivation, which has itself gone on to generate new movements, transmitting aspects of Scientology thought or practice far from the domain of L. Ron Hubbard.”