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[3]: 70 Collectively, non-staff Scientologists may be referred to as "members", the "public", or the "field". [4]: 128, 228 Even though public members are not employed by the organization, they are ranked within the entire chain of command and defer to all staff personnel, who are seen as their seniors. Members are frequently pressed into ...
The Church of Scientology has recruited celebrities for their endorsement of Scientology as a public relations strategy. 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.
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.
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Former member of Scientology's Sea Org, whose members "occupy the most essential and trusted positions in the senior churches in the Scientology hierarchy"; [70] went on to become an outspoken critic of Scientology. [71] While a member of the organization, Armstrong was "officially authorized by the Church of Scientology to write a biography ...
The name "Scientology" deliberately makes use of the word "science", [87] seeking to benefit from the "prestige and perceived legitimacy" of natural science in the public imagination. [88] In doing so, Scientology has been compared to religious groups like Christian Science and the Science of Mind, which employed similar tactics. [89]
Church of Scientology was incorporated in California on February 18, 1954. Two years later it was officially renamed to Church of Scientology of California on June 19, 1956. That corporation was restated in August 1982, dissolved on December 30, 2002, and terminated with the California Secretary of State on November 18, 2004.
[27] [28] She and her husband are Scientologists, [29] and in 1995 to People she said she is "a strong advocate of their ethics". [30] From August 2006 until January 2014, she was a co-owner of the Old Mill Inn, a restaurant in Mattituck, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island. [31] [32]