Scientologie
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Scientologie, the Germanic way of expressing the word Scientology, is a term presented by German Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz, an advocate of Aryan racial theory, in his book "Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens" ("Scientology: Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge") in 1934. [1]
It has no proven connection to the more widely known religion, Scientology, which was created later by L. Ron Hubbard, although "Scientologie" is now a registered trademark of the Religious Technology Center, which controls the Church of Scientology. The Church is currently in dispute with Free Zone Scientologists who have schismed off into their own offshoot of Scientology with the website scientologie.de. [2]
The term "Scientology" originated neither with Hubbard nor Nordenholz, but with philologist Alan Upward, who coined the term in 1907 to ridicule pseudoscientific theories. [3] [4]
