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Members are frequently pressed into service for clerical or promotional tasks or to recruit new members. [4]: 180 Members who recruit people for Scientology services are called "field staff members" (FSM) and are paid a commission of 10%–15% of the amount their recruit pays for a service. [5] [6] [4]: 181
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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Even though at-large members are not part of the organization proper, they are ranked within the entire chain of command and are frequently pressed into service for clerical or promotional tasks or recruiting new members. [2]: 180 Members who recruit people for Scientology services are called "field staff members" (FSM) and are paid a ...
This category includes persons who used to be leaders or staff in the Church of Scientology network. (Does not include those who were still on staff at the time of ...
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]
Shelly Miscavige was a member of the Sea Org, the organization responsible for the international management of the Church of Scientology and its affiliated entities. From the age of 12, she was a member of the Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO), the internal Sea Org group responsible for personally servicing Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard aboard his flagship, MV Apollo, in the 1970s.