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Scientology, international movement that emerged in the 1950s in response to the thought of L. Ron Hubbard (in full Lafayette Ronald Hubbard; b. March 13, 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, U.S.—d. January 24, 1986, San Luis Obispo, California), a writer who introduced his ideas to the general public in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950). Hubbard’s stated goal was to analyze humankind’s mental aberrations and to offer a means for overcoming them. He eventually moved away from Dianetics’ focus on the mind to a more religious approach to the human condition, which he called Scientology. The Church of Scientology was ...(100 of 2036 words)

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