Scientology (disambiguation)
Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. The word also refers to the Church of Scientology which claims a monopoly over Scientology services.
Scientology may also refer to:
- "The Science of the Scientismus"[1] the first known occurrence of the term as a neologism in The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato,[2] 1871 book by Stephen Pearl Andrews
- Scientology: A History of Man, 1952 book by L. Ron Hubbard
- Scientology: The Now Religion, 1970 book by George Malko
- Scientology (James R. Lewis book), 2009 book edited by James R. Lewis
Notes
- ↑ One of a number of terms idiosyncratic to the work such as "Artology" and "Universology", this one has a contextual meaning that would correspond to modern sociology of science, currents of analytic and other later philosophy, and the unique perspective of the work. q.v the PDF is searchable for the term. Alwato itself is a primitive conlang presaging modern ones such as lojban.
- ↑ Full Text at Internet Archive
The English-language term "Scientology" originated with philologist Allen Upward, who coined the term in 1907 in his book The New Word. 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. "...unhappily scientology is as often mistaken for science as theology is for worship." [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientologie,_Wissenschaft_von_der_Beschaffenheit_und_der_Tauglichkeit_des_Wissens
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