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Scientology

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A belief system 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."

Noun
  1. 1
    a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment wordnet

Etymology

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

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