• Sarah Lonelodge

    United States   Dr. Sarah Lonelodge is an Assistant Professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University. Her research focuses on intersections between propaganda, religion, and politics, as well as rhetoric, writing pedagogy, and writing program administration. She has published widely on Scientology and other new religious movements. Her dissertation analyzed Scientology’s propaganda strategies through the writings of L. Ron Hubbard and the organization's contemporary media platforms, including STAND and Freedom Magazine. Her work has appeared in the Lamar Journal of the Humanities, and her study of Hubbard’s strategies is forthcoming in the International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM).

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“Dirty” propaganda and the church of scientology: An analysis of L. Ron Hubbard’s internal and external propaganda strategies

Volume 4, 2022

Sarah Lonelodge
This article analyses L. Ron Hubbard’s “dirty” propaganda strategies in Scientology, showing how internal policy letters directed media suppression, controlled apostate narratives, and reinforced authority through manipulative internal and external messaging.