Scientology
Beliefs and practices and associated movement
Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by the American author L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard initially presented his ideas in 1950 as a form of talk therapy called Dianetics. He later expanded and reframed those ideas as a religion, which he named Scientology. In 1953 he founded the Church of Scientology, which by one 2014 estimate had...