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The englishlanguage term scientology originated neither with hubbard nor nordenholz, but with philologist allen upward, who coined the term in 1907 in his book the new word. Leah remini doubles down on anti scientology crusade. It was published in march 2009 by oxford university press. The actress left scientology, which she calls a cult, in 20. This reference is cited to be a use of the word to ridicule pseudoscientific theories in the book a piece of blue sky by jon atack. The ban is a good thing, says antje blumenthal, a christian democratic union cdu politician who has campaigned against scientology in. The biography was heavily cited by later scientology books, including. German historian likens cruise speech to goebbels world. More than 4,000 scientologists and guests celebrated the opening of the church of scientology kaohsiungthe first scientology organization in taiwan and the. In this provocative and disturbing book, he has set himself an impossible task.
Scientology s early books made much of the fact that hubbard had become one of the nations earliest nuclear physicists and was a medical doctor. This is an incomplete bibliography of scientology and scientology related books produced within the church of scientology and its related organizations, containing all of the basic books and some other later works either compiled from other works by or written directly by l. The things everyone knows about scientology for certain are pretty much that tom cruise is a member, that its status as a religion is controversial in fact, in some countries, like germany, its legally considered a cult, and that its central beliefs have something to do with aliens. The book, described by the american psychological association as as.