The Making of a Moonie
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| The Making of a Moonie | |
 The Making of a Moonie |
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| Author | Eileen Barker |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | religious conversion |
| Genre(s) | Unification Church |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishers |
| Publication date | November 1984 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-631-13246-5 |
The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? is a November 1984 book written by Eileen Barker , Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 0-631-13246-5.
The book describes the religious conversion process to the Unification Church.
Barker writes in the book (page 17) that her study of the conversion process involved three methods for information-gathering: in-depth interviews, participant observation, and questionnaires .
Barker also writes that she rejects the "brainwashing" theory (in the strict sense of the word as used e.g. by Margaret Singer) as an explanation for conversion to the Unification Church, because it explains neither the many people who attended a Unification Church recruitment meeting and did not become members, nor the voluntary disaffiliation of members.
Australian psychologist Len Oakes and British psychiatry professor Anthony Storr, who have written rather critically about cults, gurus, new religious movements, and their leaders have praised The Making of a Moonie.[1] [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Oakes, Len "By far the best study of the conversion process is Eileen Barker’s The Making of a Moonie [...]" from Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities, 1997, ISBN 0-8156-0398-3 excerpts
- ^ Storr, Anthony Dr. Feet of clay: a study of gurus 1996 ISBN 0-684-83495-2
[edit] External links
- excerpts, Prophetic Charisma, Len Oakes
- TV program about the book
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