Scientology Religious Organization
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A Scientology Religious Organization is a religious organization.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Cult, Religion, L. Ron Hubbard, New Religious Movement.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scientology Retrieved:2021-12-14.
- Scientology is a set of beliefs and practices invented by American author L. Ron Hubbard, and an associated movement. It has been variously defined as a cult, a business or a new religious movement. ... the organization has managed to attain a legal recognition as a religious organization in some jurisdictions, including Australia,[1] Italy, and the United States. Germany classifies Scientology groups as an "anti-constitutional sect", [2] while in France the government classify the group as a dangerous cult. [3] [4]
- ↑ "the evidence, in our view, establishes that Scientology must, for relevant purposes, be accepted as "a religion" in Victoria"
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedassemblee-nationale.fr - ↑ A 1995 parliamentary report lists Scientology groups as cults, and in its 2006 report MIVILUDES similarly classified Scientology organizations as a dangerous cult
- ↑ Le point sur l'Eglise de Scientologie, Le Nouvel Observateur
1999
- (Kent, 1999) ⇒ Stephan A. Kent. (1999). “Scientology - - Is This a Religion?. ” Marburg Journal of Religion 4, no. 1
- ABSTRACT: Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion, the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a multi-faceted transnational corporation that has religion as only one of its many components. Other components include political aspirations, business ventures, cultural productions, pseudo-medical practices, pseudo-psychiatric claims, and (among its most devoted members who have joined the Sea Organization), an alternative family structure. Sea Organization's job demands appear to allow little time for quality child rearing. Most disturbing, however, about Sea Organization life is that members can be subject to extremely severe and intrusive punishments through security checks, internal hearings called "Committees of Evidence," and a forced labour and re-indoctrination program known as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) and its harshest companion, the RPF's RPF. Taken together, these harsh and intrusive punishments likely violate a number of human rights clauses as outlined by two United Nations statements.
2013
- https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/books/going-clear-by-lawrence-wright-examines-scientology.html
- QUOTE: ... Scientology, a religion known for its bizarre creation myth, mining of church members’ secrets and draconian punishment system, has appeal. “What do its adherents get out of it?” he asks. “How can seemingly rational people subscribe to beliefs that others find incomprehensible? Why do public personalities” — he’s talking to you, Tom Cruise — “associate themselves with a faith that is likely to create a kind of public relations martyrdom?” ... As the power of Scientology’s secretiveness evaporates on the Internet, and more and more books are written about it (Janet Reitman’s 2011 “Inside Scientology” shares much common ground with “Going Clear”), sci-fi absurdity has become old news. Yes, “Going Clear” includes a photograph of Mr. Hubbard using his electronic E-meter on a tomato to measure its pain. ...
1950
- (Hubbard, 1950) ⇒ L. Ron Hubbardon. (1950). “Dianetics; the Modern Science of Mental Health; a Handbook of Dianetic Therapy.”