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Scientology analysis and criticism covers the wide range of academic and scholarly perspectives on Scientology, including debates over how the movement
Scientology analysis and criticism
Scientology_analysis_and_criticism
Belief system and practices developed by L. Ron Hubbard
Scientology, and subsequently mutilated and killed their 18‑month‑old twins. Scientology analysis and criticism covers the wide range of academic and
Scientology
American actor and film producer (born 1962)
has been an outspoken advocate for the Church of Scientology, which has resulted in controversy and scrutiny of his involvement in the organization. An
Tom_Cruise
American organization and business
of Scientology was started in 1953 by L. Ron Hubbard to promote and practice his Scientology theories and techniques. The term 'Church of Scientology' (abbreviated
Church_of_Scientology
extraterrestrial cultures. Scientology doctrine states that a person undergoing the practice of auditing will eventually come across and recount a common series
Scientology beliefs and practices
Scientology_beliefs_and_practices
Test administered by the Church of Scientology
free by the Church of Scientology as part of its recruitment process. The organization offers the test online, at its local sites, and sometimes at local
Oxford_Capacity_Analysis
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
January 24, 1986) was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career,
L._Ron_Hubbard
Actions of the Church of Scientology towards perceived enemies
policies and practices carried out by the Church of Scientology towards people and groups it perceives as its enemies. Founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard
Fair_game_(Scientology)
This is a bibliography of works critical of Scientology and the Church of Scientology. Between 1954 and 2020, only four English-language scholarly monographs
Bibliography of books critical of Scientology
Bibliography_of_books_critical_of_Scientology
The Church of Scientology has operated in Germany since 1970. German authorities estimate that there are 3,500 active Scientologists in Germany as of
Scientology_in_Germany
Since the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard, the relationship between Scientology and psychiatry has been dominated by strong
Scientology_and_psychiatry
Satirical musical about Scientology
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant is a satirical musical about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, written by Kyle Jarrow from a concept
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
A_Very_Merry_Unauthorized_Children's_Scientology_Pageant
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard routinely referred to "space opera" in his teachings, drawing from science-fiction and weaving it into his origins
Space_opera_in_Scientology
American computer scientist
in support of Professor Touretzky, noting that his criticism of Scientology is a personal affair and not the opinion of the University itself. Touretzky
David_S._Touretzky
Scientology has been a prominent and controversial subject in popular culture, inspiring depictions across literature, film, television, music, theatre
Scientology in popular culture
Scientology_in_popular_culture
Recognition of Scientology and the Church of Scientology varies from country to country with respect to state recognition for religious status, charitable
Scientology_status_by_country
German woman found dead after 3 years
German woman who disappeared on 25 September 2019 and whose disappearance had been linked to Scientology. A walker discovered her remains on February 25
Death_of_Yolanda_Klug
Church of Scientology affiliated ranch school
School, Inc., and the New Mexico Ranch School) was a ranch school for children aged 8 to 17 affiliated with the Church of Scientology. The School opened
Mace-Kingsley_Ranch_School
Norwegian student
an Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA), a personality test administered by the Church of Scientology, earlier the same day. Family and friends state that Ballo
Suicide_of_Kaja_Ballo
History of Dianetics and Scientology begins around 1950. During the late 1940s, L. Ron Hubbard began developing a mental therapy system which he called
History of Dianetics and Scientology
History_of_Dianetics_and_Scientology
Commonly used phrase used to quell cognitive dissonance
not of the faith.[clarification needed] Scientology has also been criticized for using protocols, language and lexicons that use thought-terminating clichés
Thought-terminating_cliché
and practices, and demands uniformity of beliefs from its members. He observed that the Society denies the legitimacy of all criticism of itself and that
Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses
Criticism_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses
Scientology in the United Kingdom is practised mainly within the Church of Scientology and its related groups, which go under names including the Hubbard
Scientology in the United Kingdom
Scientology_in_the_United_Kingdom
the Church of Scientology. In 1954 L. Ron Hubbard gained tax-exempt status in the United States for his Scientology organizations, and lost it in 1958
Life of L. Ron Hubbard from 1953 to 1967
Life_of_L._Ron_Hubbard_from_1953_to_1967
Dutch journalist, writer and feminist (1957–2026)
journalist, writer and feminist. She was also a free speech advocate and social critic, who criticized New Age writers and the Church of Scientology. Spaink was
Karin_Spaink
1991 newsmagazine article on Scientology
of Greed and Power" is an article, written in 1991 by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar, which is highly critical of Scientology. It was first
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
The_Thriving_Cult_of_Greed_and_Power
Canadian sociologist of religion
movements (NRMs), and has published research on several such groups including the Children of God (The Family), the Church of Scientology, and other NRMs in
Stephen_A._Kent
Scientology's drug rehab program
Narconon) is a Scientology organization which promotes the theories of founder L. Ron Hubbard regarding substance abuse treatment and addiction. Its parent
Narconon
Criticism of Conservative Judaism is widespread in the Orthodox Jewish community, although the movement also has its critics in Reform Judaism and in other
Criticism of Conservative Judaism
Criticism_of_Conservative_Judaism
Criticism of the doctrines and practices of modern paganism
essentialism to criticisms of their belief in racial supremacy to criticisms of the worldly focuses of pagan organizations. The analysis of Slavic and, in particular
Criticism_of_modern_paganism
1995 Supreme Court of Canada libel decision
Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto February 20, 1995 – July 20, 1995. 2 S.C.R. 1130 was a libel case against the Church of Scientology, in which the
Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto
Hill_v_Church_of_Scientology_of_Toronto
Criticism against religions
Criticism of Islam Criticism of Jainism Criticism of Judaism Criticism of monotheism Criticism of Sikhism Scientology controversy In 1970, the UUA passed
Criticism_of_religion
Covert operations by Church of Scientology
of Scientology carried out numerous covert operations and programs against a range of perceived opponents of Scientology in the United States and around
List of Guardian's Office operations
List_of_Guardian's_Office_operations
Scientology holder of trademarks
1982 by the Church of Scientology to control and oversee the use of all of the trademarks, symbols and texts of Scientology and Dianetics. Although RTC
Religious_Technology_Center
2009 book by James R. Lewis
Scientology is an edited volume about Scientology, and the Church of Scientology organization, published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. It was edited
Scientology_(Lewis_book)
Criticism of the Bible, the collection of religious texts held to be sacred by Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and other Abrahamic religions, often
Criticism_of_the_Bible
Criticism of Islam can take many forms, including academic critiques, political criticism, religious criticism, and personal opinions. Subjects of criticism
Criticism_of_Islam
Science of Mental Health (first published in 1950), and as the founder of the Church of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific writer; according to
L._Ron_Hubbard_bibliography
1951 book by L. Ron Hubbard
Hubbard which continues to be published by the Church of Scientology as part of Scientology's canon. According to Jon Atack, the title Science of Survival
Science_of_Survival
American historian and author (born 1951)
Times, Fortune magazine, and Commentary magazine. In 2005, the National Center for Policy Analysis fired Bartlett for his criticism of President George W
Bruce_Bartlett
Decentralized hacktivist collective
and the Church of Scientology. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users
Anonymous_(hacker_group)
created in 2001. Most of the criticism has been directed toward its content, community of volunteer editors, process, and rules. Critics have questioned
Criticism_of_Wikipedia
British author and anti-cult spokesperson (1935–2004)
and later a critic of Scientology, deprogrammer, and spokesperson on men's health. He wrote The Mind Benders, which was the first book on Scientology
Cyril_Vosper
Judgement of the ideas, validity, concept or practice of the belief in only one deity
Monotheism has attracted criticism throughout the history of the concept. Opponents of Akhenaten restored polytheism in ancient Egypt following his death
Criticism_of_monotheism
Criticism of Islam's holy book
Criticism of the Quran, the religious text held to be sacred by Islam, often concerns the text's factual accuracy, moral tenability, and supposed inerrancy
Criticism_of_the_Quran
Tradition criticism: analysis of the Bible concentrating on how religious traditions grew and changed over the time the text was written. Higher criticism: the
Criticism_of_Christianity
being pulled, Parker and Stone issued the following statement, with several mocking references to Scientology: So, Scientology, you may have won THIS
South_Park_controversies
Criticism of Buddhism has taken numerous different forms, including philosophical and rational criticisms, but also criticism of praxis, such as that
Criticism_of_Buddhism
Wikipedia linking tendency
clicking the first hyperlink in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually leads to the
Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon
Wikipedia_philosophy_phenomenon
German animation studio and YouTube channel
"Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Gun swords, super-small houses, Scientology". Tubefilter. Archived from the original on 25 September 2024. Official
Kurzgesagt
Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that
Criticism_of_Google
Varied criticism across business areas
the bad, and the ugly ... to let truth loose'" (Spector 132).[full citation needed] Amazon allegedly deleted negative reviews of Scientology-related items
Criticism_of_Amazon
Wikipedia tag added to unsourced statements
Webby-nominated media criticism podcast, hosted by journalists Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson to explore the intersection of media, PR, and power. Wikipedian
Citation_needed
Free online crowdsourced encyclopedia
rates at the time of the study were for the articles covering Croatia, Scientology, and 9/11 conspiracy theories. In 2020, researchers identified other measures
Wikipedia
iPad app for browsing Wikipedia
browsing Wikipedia using a radial tree approach to visualize how articles and subsections of articles are interrelated. The app displayed related items
WikiNodes
Psychoanalytical term
theme subsequently taken up by Vamik Volkan in his re-grief therapy. In Scientology, Dianetics is a form of abreaction that science fiction writer L. Ron
Abreaction
Israeli–British historian (born 1953)
wholesale denigration of Islam and the Arabs, and whose political interests clearly dominate his terminology and historical analysis. Jonathan Berkey writes
Efraim_Karsh
Fake name of the coati
nickname "Brazilian aardvark", which he had invented as a private joke. Breves and his brother had encountered coatis during a trip to Iguaçu Falls in Brazil
Brazilian_aardvark
Non-mainstream philosophical movement which functions like a religion
have been Trumpism and QAnon. Various new religious movements have been called pseudoreligions, such the Nation of Islam and Scientology. New Age movements
Pseudoreligion
Classifications of religious movements
Campbell discusses six groups in his analysis: Theosophy, Wisdom of the Soul, spiritualism, New Thought, Scientology, and Transcendental Meditation. In the
Sociological classifications of religious movements
Sociological_classifications_of_religious_movements
2017 video game
released in 2017, and pulls data from Wikipedia to automatically generate a playable video game. It received praise for its unique idea and retro appearance
Wikipedia – The Text Adventure
Wikipedia_–_The_Text_Adventure
Navigating between topics while browsing wikis
topic to topic while browsing Wikipedia (through hyperlinks in articles) and other wikis. The metaphor of a rabbit hole comes from Lewis Carroll's 1865
Wiki_rabbit_hole
bibliography of literature treating the topic of criticism of Christianity, sorted by source publication and the author's last name. Chinua Achebe. Things
Bibliography of books critical of Christianity
Bibliography_of_books_critical_of_Christianity
Portable device containing the entire contents of Wikipedia for offline usage
Wikipedia on a mobile device. The project was sponsored by Openmoko and made by Pandigital, and its source code has been released. The project debuted an offline
WikiReader
Organization focusing on scientific skepticism
Church of Scientology uncovered a project to discredit CSICOP so that it and its publications would cease criticism of Dianetics and Scientology. This included
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry
Canadian psychologist and scientific skeptic (1947–2007)
submit results to refereed journals and a distinct dearth of progress in the field". Beyerstein was a critic of Scientology, writing for the International
Barry_Beyerstein
Swiss religious historian (born 1957)
movements and cults, including the Unification Church, the Church of Scientology and the Pilgrims of Arès. He received his master's degree, and then his
Jean-François_Mayer
some scholars note that the original text is more complex and, after grammatical analysis, conclude that the text does not describe a violent act of
Christianity_and_violence
texts, practices, and societal norms, but Sikhs and other scholars argue that these criticisms are flawed and are based on a biased and poor understanding
Criticism_of_Sikhism
Pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine and New Age beliefs
faced significant criticism, with skeptics denouncing its practices as pseudoscientific, and allegations of abuse, cult-like behavior, and exploitation have
Access_Consciousness
2010 event supporting depicting Muhammad
bad speech is with better speech. To silence and be silenced are the refuge of cowards." In an analysis of the protest movement for Spiked, Brendan O'Neill
Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day
Central text of Rabbinic Judaism
Babylonian Talmud is the culmination of centuries of analysis and dialectic of the Mishnah and Hebrew Bible in the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. According
Talmud
2025 book about artificial intelligence
nonfiction and for combined print and e-books nonfiction. In The New York Times, Stephen Marche compared the book to a Scientology manual and said reading
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_Dies
Portuguese Wikipedia hoax article
never existed—was a Brazilian jurist and law professor who had met the composer Chico Buarque while in exile in Paris and participated in the Diretas Já movement
Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax
Carlos_Bandeirense_Mirandópolis_hoax
Controversies surrounding the topic of ADHD's nature, diagnosis, and treatment
campaign against Ritalin in the 1980s and lobbied the US Congress for an investigation into Ritalin. Scientology publications claimed that the "real target
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder_controversies
Defunct Spanish-language wiki encyclopedia
License 3.0 and using the same MediaWiki software. To encourage intellectual freedom, Enciclopedia Libre allowed for a wider range of writing styles and content
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español
Enciclopedia_Libre_Universal_en_Español
American software programmer (born 1963)
This software, originally known as "Phase III", went live in July 2002 and became the foundation of what is now called MediaWiki. MediaWiki's code repository
Lee_Daniel_Crocker
Fabricated articles on the Chinese Wikipedia
Chinese question-and-answer website Zhihu in June 2022 explaining the web of hoax articles. Zhemao posted an apology the same month and revealed herself
Zhemao_hoaxes
officially distinguished in Austria, the groups included the Church of Scientology, the Divine Light Mission, Eckankar, Hare Krishna, Osho movement, Sahaja
Governmental lists of cults and sects
Governmental_lists_of_cults_and_sects
Prayer and gestures perceived to bring divine intervention in physical healing
invoking the Korybantes, often involved special hymns, music, and dancing. Some critics of Scientology have referred to some of its practices as being similar
Faith_healing
1958 California drug rehab program turned cult
(April 24, 2020). "A Violent, Deadly Cult With Forced Abortions and Shades of Scientology". www.thedailybeast.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30. Helping People
Synanon
Controversial hypothesis
posted a rebuttal to these criticisms on the Freakonomics weblog, in which he re-ran his numbers to address the shortcomings and variables missing from the
Legalized abortion and crime effect
Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect
Defunct blog on celebrities and media
infringement notice written by lawyers for Scientology. By July 2009, the video had not been removed and no lawsuit had been filed. On September 17,
Gawker
Concept of rebirth in different physical form
Forrest and Jeffrey Wolf Green. "About Evolutionary Astrology". Retrieved 22 November 2014. "Scientology Church & Religion – What is Scientology?". Scientology
Reincarnation
Advertising-supported online encyclopedia
standards; information was then scraped, or chosen by an automatic process, and thereafter a stable version of the article was posted on Veropedia. Any improvements
Veropedia
Form of silent mantra meditation
religion demands exclusive allegiance: this would ipso facto exclude Scientology, TM and the Soka Gakkai simply on the grounds that they claim compatibility
Transcendental Meditation technique
Transcendental_Meditation_technique
American fraudster and pseudoscientist
and ended in annulment after four months. Dorow said that her prenuptial agreement with Trudeau obligated her to reach a certain level in Scientology
Kevin_Trudeau
People reporting their religion was Jedi
squid jiggers and all". The Sydney Morning Herald. "Be counted to fulfil your destiny". "Lachlan Murdoch with Rupert on Scientology being 'weird cult'"
Jedi_census_phenomenon
Wikipedia investigation of paid editing ring
approximately 250 sockpuppets were found and blocked in 2013. The story was reported by many English-language and non–English-language news sources, including
Operation_Orangemoody
mind; now part of Scientology, the technique has been rejected by the psychological and medical establishments as pseudoscientific and ineffective. Purification
List_of_pseudoscience_topics
2004 book by James R. Lewis and Jesper Aagaard Petersen
movement and Aum Shinrikyo. Groups related to western esoteric and New Age concepts are also subject to discussion: the Church of Scientology and the Order
Controversial_New_Religions
Court order to remove content from hosts
remuneration" to the copyright holder. Notice and notice Non-DMCA Google takedowns on behalf of Scientology Non-DMCA Google takedowns on behalf of Universal
Notice_and_take_down
National Wikipedia conference
conference is organised with support of the Wikimedia Foundation and allied knowledge partners, and is open to participation from citizens of all nations. The
WikiConference_India
Virtual pet site
2000, and began business on 28 April. Dohring used Scientology's Org Board to manage the company. Powell and Williams were unaware of the Scientology connections
Neopets
Type of Jewish mysticism
to criticism for its various particularities, and proposals of a hermeneutical revision of the text have been introduced, the encompassing sweep and depth
Kabbalah
Religious studies organization
defended such diverse groups as the Unification Church, the Church of Scientology, and Shincheonji Church of Jesus, accused of having aided the spread of
CESNUR
Institution of the Catholic Church
comparing Scientology and Opus Dei found some similarities as well as strong differences. This includes full availability for giving doctrinal and ascetical
Opus_Dei
AI in wiki-based volunteer content projects
decision was met with immediate and harsh criticism from some Wikipedia editors, who called the feature a "ghastly idea" and a "PR hype stunt." They criticized
Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects
Artificial_intelligence_in_Wikimedia_projects
Parody religion created in the US in the 1970s
Christianity and Scientology, earning the Church a reputation as a parody religion. Church leaders have said that Dobbs met L. Ron Hubbard, and SubGenius
Church_of_the_SubGenius
Survival horror game
to a later comparison of Unitology with Scientology, it was described as representing irrational thought and action prompted by the unknown. Creating
Dead_Space_(2008_video_game)
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