Scientology

Scientology is a system of beliefs, teachings and rituals, originally established as an alternative psychotherapy in 1951 by science-fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, then recharacterized by him in 1953 as an "applied religious philosophy."

References

• {{Citepaper | Author=Frenschkowski, Marco | Title= L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of primary and selected secondary literature | PublishYear=1999| URL=http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/frenschkowski.html }}
• {{Web reference_author | Author=Spaink, Karin | Title=The Fishman Affidavit | Work=I write therefore I am | URL=http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/home.html | Date=August 12 | Year=2005 }} Includes details of some of Scientology's high-level "Operating Thetan" teachings.
• {{Book reference | Author=Miller, Russell | Title=Bare-faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard | Publisher=Henry Holt & Co | Year=1987 | ID=ISBN 0-8050-0654-0 |URL=http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Atack, Jon | Title=A Piece of Blue Sky | Publisher=Lyle Stuart | Year=1990 | ID=ISBN 081840499X | URL=http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/apobs/ }} A critical history of Scientology, by a Scientology archivist and former Scientologist
• {{Citepaper | Author=Kent, Stephen A. | Title= Scientology's Relationship With Eastern Religious Traditions | PublishYear=1996 | URL=http://www.ami.com.au/~bradw/cos/Theology/Theology/eastern.htm }}