10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE MOONIES»
Discover the use of
the Moonies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the Moonies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sociology in Perspective
There was a low rate of recruitment and high pattern of dropout after relatively
short periods, so the Moonies were inefficient in holding on to new members.
Some observations • The recruitment and dropout patterns suggested that
particular ...
But the Moonies had beaten us all. They were standing outside the building, in
the cold, shouting and singing. They'd been there since 5 a.m. I spoke with some
of them, and they told me that they'd come in, traveling in vans, from all over the ...
"I love them too much to let the Moonies or anybody else twist their minds and
take them away from me.". ... The frantic, heartsick father was attacked by
Moonies swinging crowbars and clubs when he invaded a California camp
where cultists ...
4
The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold
The Moonies are often held up as contemporary examples of the spellbinding
power of brainwashing. The media has portrayed members as already-
vulnerable weaklings who are overcome by insidious, hypnotic, even Satanic-like
programs ...
5
Truth and Rumors:
The Reality Behind TV's Most Famous Myths
Around the same time, somebody took a second look at P&G's old- fashioned,
mystical-looking logo—a circle with a crescent-shaped, bearded man in the
moon gazing at 13 stars—and concluded that P&G was a front for the Moonies.
6
The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History
Miss2 Kim and her young followers were the very first American members of the
Unification Church, widely known today as the Moonies. As Lof land and I settled
back to watch people convert to this group, the first thing we discovered was that
...
7
Apologetics, Mission and New Religious Movements: A Holistic ...
As a reflective exercise that could illustrate this point, we could compare and
contrast the story of three ex-Moonies Deanna Durham (Life Among the Moonies)
, Chris Elkins (Heavenly Deception), and Steve Kemperman (Lord of the Second
...
8
The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival and Cult ...
Consider the case of the Unification Church, popularly known as the Moonies.
When first observed in late 1962 (Lofland and Stark, 1965), they had but 20
members in the United States — the same total as our hypothetical cult. There
were ...
9
Game Design: Theory and Practice, Second Edition
In addition to their generally strange appearance, the Moonies come in two
varieties: the “Bi-Headers” and the “Torsos.” The Bi-Headers have two heads on
top of their bodies, while the Torsos have none, instead having a mouth and eyes
on ...
10
Religion in
the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction
A classic demonstration of this is Barker's study of the Moonies (Barker 1984: 145
—8). In a survey of more than 1,000 people who attended a two-day workshop in
the London area in 1979, she found that only one in ten actually joined the ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE MOONIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
the Moonies is used in the context of the following news items.
Jewish Parents Once Panicked About Teens Joining Cults — But No …
The Moonies, Hare Krishnas, gurus, yogis — all of these loomed large and menacing back then. I was in college in '81, and while I didn't have any friends who ... «Jewish Daily Forward, May 14»
Michelle Pfeiffer: The day I realised I was part of a cult
He had been cast in a film about the Moonies, the name given to followers of Rev Moon Sun-myung's Unification Church. She said that while she was helping ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
Twilight of the Moonies and Scientologists?
As the Moonies leader Sun Myung Moon is buried this weekend, parents of Western teens are praying that the era of bizarre religious groups dies along with ... «Daily Beast, Sep 12»
Remembering former Rep. Don Fraser's battle with the Moonies
The investigation implicated the Moonies, as they were known, and unleashed a furious personal assault on Fraser by Moon and his followers. The assault ... «MinnPost.com, Sep 12»
Can the Moonies keep on shining?
My first encounter with the “Moonies” was in the early Seventies when a young man appeared at our front door selling multi-coloured candles. He said his ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 12»
Australian Moonies mourn death of church founder
MARK COLVIN: Officials of the global religious group known as the Moonies have ... It was one of the mass weddings for which the Moonies became famous. «ABC Online, Sep 12»
WATCH: An Inside Look At Mass Weddings Of The Unification …
The church's members, often accused of being cult members, have been nicknamed "the Moonies." Though more popular than the church's actual name the, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 12»
Why the Reported Sale of the Moonies Washington Times for $1 …
The Washington Post has recently reported that Moon is personally trying to buy the Washington Times back from Unification Church International (UCI), after ... «Huffington Post, Sep 10»
Pupils to learn about Druids, Moonies and Rastafarians for new …
But in the section covering the rise of minority religious sects and movements, they can make an in-depth study of the Moonies, members of the Unification ... «Daily Mail, Apr 09»
