Scientology
Its Cosmology, Anthropology, System of Ethics & Methodologies

(5) Scientology has the character of a “this world” religion reminiscent of Soka Gakkai where business success honestly obtained is seen as a sign of positive spiritual evolution. We can also draw a parallel between the ethics of Scientology and those of traditional Protestantism. In the latter case, success in worldly affairs testifies to a state of grace, and in the former it is the outward manifestation of the person’s work on his own personality, of a personal religious and moral code made up principally of psychological liberation techniques that free the individual spiritually, and the application of a very concrete system of morality.
(6) It is not a sect – it is not exclusive, and the follower is not obliged to renounce his former religion, although most practice Scientology exclusively.