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Public Scientologists are those individuals who are not staff. They pay the Church of Scientology for training or auditing services, and live and work independent of the organization. [3]: 70 Collectively, non-staff Scientologists may be referred to as "members", the "public", or the "field". [4]: 128, 228
This category is for people who are publicly known as members or former members of the Church of Scientology. Many former members are now critics; see Category:Critics of Scientology. Other former members practice Scientology without being connected to the COS. They refer to themselves as Freezoners.
The organization has had a written program governing celebrity recruitment since at least 1955, when L. Ron Hubbard created "Project Celebrity", offering rewards to Scientologists who recruited targeted celebrities. [1] [2] [3]: 254 Early interested parties included former silent-screen star Gloria Swanson and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck.
Despite a relatively small membership base, Scientology is one of the most widely discussed fringe religious groups in the world, thanks in part to its more famous adherents. And while some ...
Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter in 2013, “I have two children who are Scientologists – Connor and Isabella – and I utterly respect their beliefs.” John Travolta
These are people who are publicly documented as having been Scientologists at one time and are no longer members or associated. For more information, see List of Scientologists . Subcategories
The actress — who has been a Scientologist for 30 years — calls the controversy surrounding the organization “boring.”
The Canadian census revealed 1,215 Scientologists in 1991 and 1,525 in 2001, [218] down to 1,400 in 2021. [441] The Australian census reported 1,488 Scientologists in 1996 and 2,032 in 2001, [442] before dropping to under 1,700 in 2016. [443] [444] [445] The New Zealand census found 207 Scientologists in 1991 and 282 in 2001. [218]