Unification Studies
This Element recounts the tumultuous history of the Unification Church Movement, deriving from the messianic ministry of MOON Sun Myung (1920–2012). It begins with the UCM's origins in Korea and traces its development into a global conglomerate of churches, related nonprofit organizations, and for-profit businesses.…
Religious social action groups are emerging as key movers in sweeping sociopolitical changes world-wide. Although their inspiration is religious, their goals are secular. This volume considers the role of such groups by examining regions and nations where change has been most dramatic. Areas researched…
This volume is a scholarly appraisal of the Unification Church series of articles which place the Unification Church in the context of church history, sociology, and theology.
New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious reactions that they evoke from majority interests. Modern…
Messianic movements : a comparative analysis of the Sabbatians, the People's Temple and the Unification Church
Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope interprets the fundamental functions of spirituality through the theories and practices of hope and understanding the futuristic aspiration of new religious movements. The book portrays a neutral notion of hope that can be either religious or…
Socio-Anthropological Approaches to Religion: Environmental Hope interprets the fundamental functions of spirituality through the theories and practices of hope and understanding the futuristic aspiration of new religious movements. The book portrays a neutral notion of hope that can be either religious or humanistic…
Abstract Revelation from God and other spirit beings is a central element in the doctrine and life of the Unification Church. This essay examines the changing patterns of revelation in the history of this new religion, paying particular attention to recent and significant developments in the unfolding of revelation to…
It is often assumed that recent decades have seen a general decline in the interest in religion in British society and a consequent reduction in the range and extent of religious activity. In fact, however, the period since the end of the Second World War has been marked by a significant expansion in the number and…
"The New Religious Movements – What Happened to Them? A Study of the Church of Scientology, The Children of God, iskcon, The Unification Church and The Rajneesh Movement and Their Development over Time" published on 01 Jan 2015 by Brill.
Abstract This chapter outlines the origins, history, and beliefs of the Unification Church. It highlights the ways in which the Unification Church has sought to fulfill the role that it believes it holds in God's plan for humanity. It also summarizes the various activities in which the movement has been involved and…
It is often assumed that recent decades have seen a general decline in the interest in religion in British society and a consequent reduction in the range and extent of religious activity. In fact, however, the period since the end of the Second World War has been marked by a significant expansion in the number and…
Focusing on the Unification Church and its global mission strategies, this chapter examines the nature of management in religious organizations. By diversifying its businesses into political and economic domains, the Unification Church succeeded in forging connections with those governments that offered political…
239 6.5.1 After Vogan: Double Standard for Examining Petitions (1951) Throughout the period of trusteeship, oral hearings were used almost exclusively by African petitioners, 337 particularly petitioners from Togoland.In fact, until 1950, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement was the only group that appeared in…
Abstract Emerging out of a messianic Protestant environment steeped in the Korean religious heritage, the Unification Church/Movement has become one of the best-known new religious movements in the world. However, little is known about the impact of mediumistic activities in Unificationism, particularly as articulated…
This chapter focuses on two new religious movements (NRMs): Tzu-Chi and the Unification Church within Taiwan and South Korea. The chapter documents their beginnings and explores their involvement within welfare provision. It is argued that NRMs are part of the very fabric of modernisation theory and in the absence of…
In November 1995, the founders of the Unification Church (UC) were blacklisted through the Schengen Information System and thus banned from entering 12 European countries. The ban against Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) and his wife constituted a blatant violation of the basic right of several thousand European…
The Unification Church (UC), officially, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU), is no stranger to litigation, particularly in the United States. However, its relationship to the law has evolved. Initially ignored and later stigmatized as a religious cult, the UC fought as an outsider asserting…
This chapter traces the emergence of the Unification movement from the nucleus of Rev. Sun Myung Moon to its burgeoning in the United States in the form of three distinct Unificationist movements. It begins with a biographical sketch of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, which provides evidence of the importance of science in…
1. Die populär unter den Bezeichnungen »Mun-Sekte« oder auch »Mun-Bewegung« bekannte Vereinigungskirche (engl. Unification Church) gehört zu den →Neuen religiösen Bewegungen und entstand aus Elementen des →Konfuzianismus und des koreanischen →Protestantismus. Die Familie des Gründers San Myung Mun (engl. Transkription…
Abstract This chapter details the involvement of Jonathan Wells and William Dembski in the intelligent design movement. Wells, a member of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, devotes himself to attacking evolution as a religious duty, and Dembski is the movement’s chief apologist and mathematical thinker. The…
Social scientists aspire to explain or interpret the patterns that they detect in social relations, social processes, cultural meanings and social structures. The results of their work are often contentious but sometimes persuasive. By contrast, their attempts to predict the future are rarely successful. The…
1. Die populär unter den Bezeichnungen »Mun-Sekte« oder auch »Mun-Bewegung« bekannte Vereinigungskirche (engl. Unification Church) gehört zu den →Neuen religiösen Bewegungen und entstand aus Elementen des →Konfuzianismus und des koreanischen →Protestantismus. Die Familie des Gründers San Myung Mun (engl. Transkription…
Abstract The Unification Church was established in the United States early in the course of its evolution as a religious sect, at a time when intense conversion experiences and fervent commitment were reflected in the way new members were engaged. Because of this, studies of the church during this period of expansion…
Abstract SOKA Gakkai International (SGI) is among the less familiar of the new religions in the United States. Other religions of Asian origin, such as ISKCON (Hare Krishna), the Unification Church (Moonies ), Transcendental Meditation (TM), and the Divine Light Mission, that emerged in the United States mid-century…
Abstract IN an increasingly individualistic society, new religions generally win converts singly rather than as whole families. Whilst long-settled sectarian bodies are most typically composed of families and sometimes of extended kinship networks, as intermarriage and endogamy have led to a cumulative process of…
The approach adopted in this book has been phenomenological. I have attempted throughout to describe the origins, beliefs and practices of the Unification Church without imposing my own value judgements or raising external criticisms from my own religious standpoint. By doing so, however, I may be accused of having…
We have seen that in Unificationist thought, God’s ideal for humankind is marriage and the procreation of sinless children. Jesus was crucified before he was able to undergo matrimony, and consequently the Kingdom of Heaven was left unopened. Because the Lord of the Second Advent is believed to have taken over the…
Abstract The Unification Church has been accorded an importance in western countries quite out of proportion to its size, principally because of the attention of the mass media. Orchestrated press campaigns have typically alleged that Moonies induce converts to break off contact with their families; deceive donors and…
The authors undertook this study to enhance psychiatric understanding of contemporary charismatic religious sects. After a pilot study, a representative sample of members of the Unification Church (N = 237) completed a 216-item structured questionnaire. Respondents were below the mean for an age- and sex-matched group…
By evoking outrage at the alleged acts of a religious group, newspaper accounts of atrocities serve to validate “evil” and thereby legitimize social control.
This project was designed to study the psychological nature of compliance with unusual behavioral norms among members of a charismatic religious sect. Three hundred twenty-one members of the Unification Church had been placed into marital engagement a year previously in a highly unusual fashion: their partners were…
This book takes a provocative look at early 1970s - an often overlooked yet colorful period when Vietnam War and student protests were on wane as new religious groups grew in size and visibility. Certainly, religious strains were evident through postwar popular culture from 1950s Beat generation into 1960s drug…
Of 66 persons who left the Unification Church (the "Moonies"), twenty-three (36%) reported that they had had serious emotional problems after leaving. After an average of 3.8 years, however, the former members studied here had apparently achieved a stable adjustment. Most of them retained a notable fidelity toward the…
past participle stem of scribere, ‘to write’. 2 This may have had particular significance in past societies where only the most important, authoritative narratives were written down; in an age of mass literacy such as the twentyfirst century, potentially all writings are scripture. From the mid-twentieth century…
Beckford Jim. Through the Looking-glass and out the Other Side. Withdrawal from Reverend Moon's Unification Church / Derrière le miroir. Quitter l'Eglise de l'Unification du Révérend Moon.. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°45/1, 1978. pp. 95-116.
A 3-year follow-up of longtime engaged members of the Unification Church revealed remarkable compliance with the sect's unusual marital commitments. Of 305 subjects, 95% were still active in the church and 85% had been married in the interim to mates designated by their religious leader. Their scores on a measure of…
Preface Secularization, Globalization, and Social Action Fundamentalism and Globalization: Fundamentalist Movements at the Twilight of the Twentieth Century by Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe Secularization and Religious Modernity in Western Europe by Daniele Hervieu-Leger Open Society, Social Action and the…
Journal Article The Secular Contribution to Religious Innovation: A Case Study of the Unification Church Get access Arthur S. Parsons Arthur S. Parsons Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 209–227,…
Perceptions of danger result not only from fear of defilement, but also from competing claims to the ownership of central symbols by forces on the periphery of a society. This article examines two peripheral movements often perceived as dangerous in American society during the 1970s—the Unification Church and the…
This paper reports the findings of a participant observation study of the role system of the Unification Church. After noting several strategic inconsistencies in the literature on roles and the organization of authority in the Church, the paper describes 1) the therapeutic ideology of heart elaborated by the Moonies;…
Four women who were or had been members of the Unification church were studied by means of clinical interviews and psychological tests. The authors found that these women shared the following characteristics: 1) difficulties with heterosexual relations; 2) idealism and usually the wish to serve or unify others; 3) a…
Following the demise of MunS o n-myo ng in 2012, theS outh Korean Unification Movement has entered an era of female leadership.Munswidowed wife,Han Hak-cha, rose to become the groupss ole new leader. Drawing on ad istinct (co-)messianic narrative,while resuming on the given millenarian trajectory -both chiefly shaped…
Two widely observed patterns in the development of new religious movements are a gradual organizational and theological settling of the movement and a transition in leadership from the founder/leader(s) to their successors.1 We report here on the confluence of these two developments in Unificationism over the last…
The author examines three new religious movements in South Korea: Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Unification Church, and the Daesoon Jinrihoe, and aims to identify the factors that are conducive to the growth of each. All three organisations believe in a coming paradise, and the article explores their respective attempts to…
This paper explores the distinctive funerary tradition of the Unification Movement, a globally active South Korean new religious movement founded in 1954. Its funerary tradition centres on the so-called Seonghwa (formerly Seunghwa) Ceremony, which was introduced in January 1984. The paper traces the doctrinal context…
This paper will apply Peter Homans’s argument on mourning to the new religious movement phenomena of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU). Homans’s theory focused on the progressive and creative aspects of mourning and extended the discussion from the personal to the social, collective level…
Drawing on Max Weber's theories of charismatic leadership and succession, discussion is given to a number of leaders of recent religious organizations. It is argued that greater precision can be given to Weber's 'ideal types' by considering the specifically religious status that has been accorded to Charles Taze…
One might have thought that of all the mainstream Christian denominations, the Pentecostalists would have been one of the most condemnatory of the Unification Church. Their belief in the inerrancy of scripture is incompatible with the many 'symbolic' interpretations given by the UC; their stress on the importance of…
This work provides a full-scale study of the approach to sexuality and marriage doctrines of the Unification Church.
The Unification Church was examined in depth to discover why so many young people commit themselves to a totalitarian religious movement so different from their original value system. The Moonies' belief system, their recruitment practices and the typologies of youth who populate the movement were explored and…
In America since the late 60s there has been a burgeoning of youth-oriented spiritual movements.This phenomenon is regarded generally as an outgrowth of the counter-culture movement-a continual exploring of nontraditional paths towards a meaningful life.Many youths have shifted away from both main line religion and…
ABSTRACT: This article draws on the cohort theory of sociologist Karl Mannheim to consider the “second-generation issue” in the Unification movement. Mannheim’s understanding of the “problem of generations” was that generational cohorts have formative differences that create different visions for society. For new…
This is a historical study of the religious imagination of an African Instituted Church (AIC) concerning the concept of unity in the Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S). Barely some years into its establishment in 1925, division broke out between the two founders (Moses Orimolade and Christiana Emanuel nee Akinsowon).…
This article analyzes the Sanctuary Church in Pennsylvania, pastored by Reverend Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon, son of the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon. It specifically addresses the church’s history and the theology that motivated “Pastor Sean,” as he is commonly called, to host a marriage blessing ceremony where attendees…
The context: This strategy would be best applied in introductory courses on world religions or religion in America. It would also work well in courses specific to the subject of new religious movements. The course in which I most recently used this activity was entitled “Religious Diversity in America.” The…
In his introduction to the Joumal for the Scieniific Study of Religion 1975 symposium on the work of Joseph Fichter, JeK Hadden listed a number of ways in which Joe had gOt himself into trouble by not toeing the party (that is, the Vatican) line. He ended with the words And I am confident that there are yet more…
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Three groups of subject (From 20 to 30, from 40 to 50, and over 60 years of age) were asked to produce four geometrical figures (circle, square, cube, star) and four non-geometrical drawings (house, human figure, bicycle, pipe) on verbal command first, and then from a model. Analysis of data gathered on 96 subjects…
ABSTRACT: This special issue on new religions and second-generation members brings together three articles, two Field Notes essays, and one Perspective essay. The authors draw on a variety of methodologies and disciplines, including history, religious studies, sociology, and psychoanalysis. Particular attention is…
We revisit the sociological discussion around coercive conversion to the worldview of religious or political organization, building from the historical example of the Unification Church. Using the neurocomputational framework of Active Inference, we demonstrate that (in line with the current sociological consensus)…
본 논문은 이안 바부어의 네 가지 유형론, 곧 갈등, 독립, 대화, 통합을 바탕으로 세계평화통 일가정연합의 종교와 과학 통일론을 고찰하였다. 가정연합은 종교와 과학이 하나님의 창조목 적 안에서 본래 하나의 진리로 통일되어 있었으나, 인간의 타락으로 분리되었다고 본다. 그러 나 구원섭리를 통해 종교와 과학은 본래의 일치를 회복해 나간다고 본다. 이러한 관점은 바부 어의 통합 유형의 성격과 유사하다. 특히 비판적 실재론과 자연의 신학적 방법론, 그리고 체계 적 종합으로서 포괄적 형이상학의 필요성은 공통적이다. 그러나 가정연합은 종교와 과학의 통 합을 위해 기존 계시보다…
[Objective] This study aims to understand religious education in families of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU), a new Christian religion, with a particular focus on adolescent textbooks utilized in these households. [Contents] The adolescent textbooks, compiled into two volumes, are structured…
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Christianity has a relatively short history in Korea, yet it has grown rapidly, consolidating the biggest percentage of Christians among East Asia. Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches are some of the mainline Protestant denominations in the country. Furthermore, alternative Christian groups, also referred to…
본 연구는 ‘세계평화통일가정연합’(이하 가정연합)이 ‘공의주의(共義主義)’의 실천을 위한 기본단위를 ‘가정(家庭)’으로 규정한 것에 대한 논쟁에 주목한다. 먼저 『통일사상요강』, 『원리 강론』, 『문선명선생말씀선집』등을 근거로 한 선행연구의 해석을 통해 공의주의가 무엇인지 를 살펴본다. 공통적으로 공의주의와 가정 개념이 기존 선행연구에서 ‘하나님의 참사랑’을 중 심으로 해석되고 있지만 공의주의의 실천 기본단위를 가정으로 할 때, 그 실행 주체를 가정연 합 존재론의 핵심 개념인 ‘개성진리체(個性眞理體)’로 볼 것인지 아니면 가정으로 볼 것인지에 대한 상충된 해석이…
In fact, the UCM's founding generation has set its sights on significant global expansionWhether the post-Sun Myung Moon/post-Hak Ja Han Moon UCM will seek a denominational niche within which it might perpetuate, or whether it will maintain its world-transforming religious fervor, will be pivotal questions during the…
소금은 인간의 생명유지에 필요한 생리적 요소로서 고대문명에서부터 사회문화적으로 중요한 역할을 해왔으며, 동서고금의 종교의례와 민간신앙에서도 널리 사용되며 종교문화적 의미에 참여해온 물질이다. 그러나 소금의 종교적 사용이나 의미에 대한 연구는 거의 일천하다. 한국 신종교인 세계평화통일가정연합은 일찍부터 물건이나 음식, 장소를 깨끗하고 거룩한 것으로 분별하는 성별의 물질로 성스러운 소금, 즉 성염(holy salt)을 공식적으로 사용해왔다. 이러한 성염은 가정 연합의 종교의례와 신자들의 일상적 삶과 의식에 깊이 자리하고 있어, 종교적 물질로서 소금에 대해 연구할 수…
종교사 안에서 대체로 남성 신과 남성 구원자를 중심한 종교는 남성 중심적 문화를 형성해 왔다. 가정연합은 그와 다르게 음양적 신관과 부부 구원자관을 가지고 있다. 이러한 사상적 특 징은 가정연합이 더 남녀평등의 문화를 형성할 것으로 기대하게 한다. 그러나 독생녀론이 나오 기 전까지 가정연합은 남성 구원자 중심의 신앙관에서 음양의 신을 남성격이며 아버지로 이해 하고, 부부 구원자를 남성 중심으로 이해하는 경향이 컸다. 한학자의 새로운 주장에 근거한 독생녀론은 가정연합을 남녀 평등적 교단으로 발전시키고 있다. 독생녀론은 교단의 남성 중심적 교리 해석과 문화를 남녀…
The article analyzes the beliefs and practical activities of synthetic neo-religions on issues of family, marriage, marital life, children’s education, attitude to parents, etc. In particular, the position of Baha'i Faith, Unification Church and Church of Scientology is considered.
 The peculiarity of this…
현대사회에서 갈등과 불평등, 부정의가 난무하고 있는 것처럼 가정에서도 안전과 평화를 위협하는 다양한 사건이 일어나고 있다. 평화는 갈등과 전쟁이 없이 평온하고 조화를 이루며, 서로 간에 치우침 없이 수평을 이룬 안정의 상태이다. 평화로운 세상을 만들어 가기 위해서는 먼저 가정의 평화가 실현되어야 한다. 가정의 평화를 위협하는 많은 문제는 평범할 수도 있는 가사노동과 육아문제로부터 출발한다. 현대는 남성과 여성 모두가 일과 가정을 양립하면서 가 사분담과 육아의 문제가 심각하게 대두되었고, 그 결과 초저출산이라는 국가적 위기 상황에 놓 여있다. 본 논문에서는 부부의…
As the title suggests, this book is about children who have been born or brought up at an early age into one of those religions that might be termed a sect, cult, and/or a new religious movement. Van Eck Duymaer van Twist focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on the Bruderhof, the Church of Scientology, the…
For a proper dialogue and harmony between different religious traditions it is more desirable to look for “what is common” than “what is different.” When the threefold training, a self-cultivation system of Buddhism, is compared with the three stages of resurrection, a human development system of the Unification…
Cults and New Religions is a short introduction to new religious movements (NRMs), eight of which are given extended coverage: Scientology, Transcendental Meditation (TM), Ramtha, The Unification Church (UC)-now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU), The Children of God-now The Family…
Although religious innovation in America historically has been the norm rather than the exception, mainstream Americans have often viewed new religious movements with suspicion and occasionally with outright alarm. The question motivating many studies of new religious movements has been "why would someone join these…
Abstract This article describes one of the Christian's movement (church's movement), its methods and its principles, i.e: Unification Church and analysing them comparatively.
This study investigates the cult involvement of three individuals. The first is a nineteen year old woman who became involved in occult practices with her peer group. The second, a woman in her forties who was, for eight years, an active member of the Children of God (The Family) cult. Thirdly, a man in his forties…
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Journal Article The Odyssey of New Religious Movements: Persecution, Struggle, Legitimation: A Case Study of the Unification Church. By John Biermans. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. 218 pp. $9.95 paper Get access David S. Bromley David S. Bromley Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, Virginia Search…
The Odyssey of New Religious Movements: Persecution, Struggle, Legitimation: A Case Study of the Unification Church. By John T. Biermans. Symposium Series 19. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. xiv + 216 pp. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Share Icon Share Twitter Facebook Reddit LinkedIn Reprints and Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John T. Edsall, E. P. Wigner; Unification Church. Physics Today 1 October 1980; 33 (10): 15–88. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2913783 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends…
Moonies I met in the Barrytown, New York, seminary of the Unification Church is a young man I will call Tom Kellogg, now in his mid-twenties. We became friends, and it was when I was talking with Tom that the seriousness of this question struck me with great force. Tom comes from one of New York's prominent families;…
Journal Article Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church by Frederick Sontag. Nashville: Abingdon, 1977, 244 pp. $8.95 Get access Joseph B. Tamney Joseph B. Tamney Ball State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1978,…
Examining the evidence Unificationist doctrines the Korean religious heritage the advent of Christianity Korea's new Christians Jesus in Unification thought the blessing rites and festivals the future agenda some personal reflections. Appendix: the numerological significance of the blessings.
Drawing on cases of Japanese women's conversion narratives and everyday practices of married life, this article examines the religious nature of transnational marriage between Japanese women and Korean men through the Unification Church. I use the term pilgrimage from these women's perspective because they view their…
Moonculuk ya da Birlestirme Kilisesi, 1954 yilinda Protestan Hiristiyanlik ile Uzakdogu inanc ve felsefelerinin (ozellikle Konfucyanizm ve Yin Yang gelene-gi’nin) bir senkretizmi olarak Guney Kore’de kurulan ve daha sonra merkezi Amerika’ya nakledilen bir dinsel akimdir. Bu akimin, “yeni dunya duzeni”ni kurma…
본 논문은 최근 한국 사회에서 세계평화통일가정연합을 둘러싸고 제기되고 있는 정교유착 및 신정정치 논란을 배경으로, 가정연합의 핵심 교리인 천일국론을 종교사회학적 관점에서 분석하고 그 정치적 오해의 구조를 규명하고자 한다. 특히 천일국이 특정 국가나 정권의 창출을 목표로 하는 정치 이데올로기가 아니라, 하늘부모님 중심의 평화이상세계를 지향하는 종교적 이상세계론임을 밝히는 데 주된 목적을 둔다. 이를 위해 국가-종교 관계 유형론, 세속화 및 공적 종교 논의, 근대 국가 내 신종교의 인정투쟁 이론을 분석틀로 설정하고, 『천성경』과 「천일국 헌법」 등 가정연합의 1차…
본 논문은 세계평화통일가정연합의 일본인 결혼이주여성들의 수행성과 그들의 삶이 70여년의 역사를 이어오고 있는 한국 가정연합 공동체의 정체성과 종교문화에 현재 미치고 있는 영향을 분석한다. 연구대상인 한국 가정연합의 일본여성들은 종교적 결혼이주를 하여 한국에 정착하여 살고 있다. 이들에 대한 기존 연구가 주로 사회학적·인류학적 차원에서 이주여성의 다문화 적응이나 가족문제에 초점을 두었다면, 본 연구는 종교학적 관점에서 이들의 이주와 실천이 종교공동체 자체를 어떻게 변화시키는가에 주목한다. 이를 위해 주디스 버틀러의 수행성(performativity) 이론을 적용하여…
This study updates explanations about the late Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon’s (“Reverend Moon”) Unification Movement, a new religious movement he founded in 1954. The Unification Movement substantively fragmented, beginning in 2008 following the founder’s age-related mental and physical decline. This study principally…
본 연구는 가정연합 초기 신비체험에 주목하여 『증언』 1집에 실린 신비체험의 내용과 특징을 분석하고 이를 기초하여 영성을 정리해보고자 하였다. 먼저 가정연합 초기 신비체험은 문선명·한학자 선생이 참부모임을 깨닫고 가정연합 신앙에 대해 더욱 확신을 가지게 하는 경험이었다. 이러한 신비체험은 ①입교전 다양한 종교의 신비체험, ②하얀 한복을 입은 남성의 등장, ③하나님을 직접 만나거나 음성을 들음, ④계시를 통해 앞일을 알게 됨, ⑤치유의 역사(役事) 경험 등의 특징을 가진 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 신비체험에 대한 분석을 바탕으로 가정연합의 영성을 ①마음수련으로…
대부분 종교는 구원을 개인 또는 사회의 관점에서 이해하는 반면, 세계평화통일가정연합은 개인, 사회와 더불어 가정도 구원의 범주로 이해한다. 따라서 가정연합의 구원론은 개인구원, 사회구원, 가정구원의 범주로 구성된다. 가정연합에 의하면, 구원은 타락으로 이루지 못한 신의 창조목적을 실현하는 것이다.<BR> 가정구원은 크게 세 가지 의미를 함께 갖는다. 첫째, 신을 중심한 창조본연의 가정을 회복하는 것이다. 둘째, 신을 중심한 본연의 가정을 통해 신의 자녀로 거듭나며, 사랑의 인격과 신인일체의 영성을 함양하는 것이다. 셋째, 가정 단위로 구원을 이루는 것이다. 구원은…
The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC), founded in Seoul in 1954 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), has been more popularly known as the Unification Church (UC) or ‘the Moonies.’ Following revelations that he reports having received as a young man, Moon devoted his…
The religious community initiated by Sun-Myung Moon was divided into three groups after his death. The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (hereinafter FFWPU) led by Moon’s wife Hak-Ja Han is a major group among them. This paper studies the changes of the FFWPU after Moon’s death. The FFWPU seems to be…
The author details the history of the various groups that settled in Paraguay, including Jesuits, Mennonites, and European refugees. He also discusses the rule of President Francisco Solano Lopez.
The Unification Church, which has been performing marriage blessing ceremonies that have transcended religious, racial and national barriers since the 1960's, has produced many international couples. This study seeks to shed new light on Korean multiculturalism from the perspective of Japanese women who, after…
This article considers the place of science in the thought of three Unificationist groups in the United States from 1959 to 1971, those operated by Young Oon Kim, David S. C. Kim and Sang Ik Choi, all associated with Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The manner in which these groups treated science reveals and…
Korean martial art won hwa do is connected with The Unification Church. Its founder is Sun Myung Moon, who founded many other nongovernmental organizations. The Unification Church has a gross influence on personal life of its members. It seems be dangerous for countries in the Middle Europe as it is shown on example…
Tenchi Seikyo is a small New Religion in Japan that has converged with the Unification Movement of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. This paper presents the history and nature of Tenchi Seikyo, describes the life of its founder, Kawase Kayo, and outlines Tenchi Seikyo ^ organization, beliefs, and practices. It also discusses the…
The Unification Church poses a question related to the disaster causation model, because it did not grow to any significant degree during the first decade following the start of the Korean War that was undoubtedly the most disastrous event to Koreans in the 20th century. The present dissertation examines the…
A lively body of literature has explored the majority Korean public’s rapidly changing attitudes and opinions on immigrants and LGBT persons, drawing on large-scale quantitative data amidst the Korean government’s pro-multicultural policies and programs in the wake of neoliberal global pressure. In contrast to the…
In the Fall of 1982 Susan Matsukawa enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) with the intent and purpose of establishing a religious cult. She was a member of the Unification Church and attempted to form a branch of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) on campus. The…
A paper presented at the CESNUR 2011 International Conference in Danshui, Taiwan. Please do not quote or reproduce without the consent of the author. Identities and autobiographies What makes me the person I am? To think of the self in philosophical terms of minds and bodies does not touch on the distinctiveness of…
평화는 인류의 오랜 소망이지만, 무엇이 평화이고 누구의 평화이며 어떻게 평화가 가능한지에 대해 수많은 입장과 견해가 상충하고 있고 갈등과 전쟁, 폭력의 현실은 여전히 인간의 실존적 조건이다. 세계평화통일가정연합은 그러한 갈등과 다툼, 미움과 원한이 해소된 ‘평화’이상세계를 종교적 이상으로 지향하며, 종교영역을 넘어 다양한 평화운동을 활발하게 펼쳐왔다. ‘평화’는 가정연합의 종교적 이상과 실천적 지향을 가장 총체적으로 표현하며 종교를 넘어선 운동들의 일관된 슬로건이자 기조이다. 그런 점에서 가정연합의 평화관은 한국의 종교평화사상으로서 주목할 만하다. 이러한 가정연합의…
The Unification Church, or the Unificationism, also known as HAS-UWC (Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity) or ‘Moonies’ (the term deemed now as disrespectful) but originating from the name of the founder Sun Myung Moon, who set up this Christian religious movement in Northern Korea in…
Drawing on a variety of primary sources and numerous interviews and personal conversations with adherents from East Asia, Europe and the United States, this paper sheds light on the latest historical and doctrinal developments in the South Korean Unification Movement, following the passing of its founder and…
Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012) was the unquestioned leader of the Unification Church (established in 1954) for nearly six decades. Many have speculated as to the fate of a post-Sun Myung Moon church, particularly since his presence held together a variety of competing nationalities, ideological orientations and…
We revisit the sociological discussion around coercive conversion to the worldview of religious or political organization, building from the historical example of the Unification Church. Using the neurocomputational framework of Active Inference, we demonstrate that (in line with the current sociological consensus)…
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon lifts up God who is Heavenly Parent, Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. Unificationism has always used these terms but has never explained them. In this paper I present a conceptual framework by which to do so. I begin with God as one person, then explain how this one person became two, male and…
Arranged marriages, together with mass weddings, are not the only remarkable practices of the Unification Church. Arranged marriages can also be viewed as the central point of the Unification Church members’ life histories. These biographies are continuously being created, shared, and retold within the group.…
The paper considers the criteria for the classification of religious organizations utilized by Roy Wallis and Gordon Melton in their typologies. The Unification church, which can be found in categories established in accordance to different criteria in the work of the two aforementioned authors, is used as an example…
This paper aims at discovering the Unification Church’s logic in its struggles for recognition as a Christian group and its discourses on the unification of religions. The Unification Church appeared as a new religious sect of Korea in 1954. From the beginning, this sect faced much criticism from all branches of…
Sun Myung Moon tarafından Güney Kore’de kurulan ve Mooncular olarak bilinenDünya Hıristiyanlığının Birleşmesi için Kutsal Manevi Birlik Kilisesi, nativistikbir hareket olarak doğmuş ve küreselleşmeden yararlanarak dünya ölçeğinde faaliyetlerinisürdürmüştür. Çeşitli alanlardaki faaliyetleriyle belli bir popülarite elde…
For Unification Church, founded by Reverend Moon, family institution is an important instrument to save the world. Rev. Moon chooses the candidates for a wedding by examining their photos and their application forms, and in this way he creates blessing families. Since 1992, Moon's marriages are open to non-adherents:…
Book Review| May 01 1992 The Advent of Sun Myung Moon: The Origins, Beliefs and Practices of the Unification Church The Advent of Sun Myung Moon: The Origins, Beliefs and Practices of the Unification Church. By George D. Chryssides. St. Martin's Press. 1991. 230 pp. $35.00. Young-Chan Ro Young-Chan Ro George Mason…
Champion Françoise. Boyer (Jean-François) L'Empire Moon et Grace (James H.) Sex and Marriage in the Unification Movement. A Sociological Study. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°62/2, 1986. pp. 237-238.
Séguy Jean. Sontag (Frederick) Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church; An In-Depth Investigation of Man and the Movement. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°51/2, 1981. p. 293.
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Essay| November 01 1921 South America’s Unification Movement Current History (1921) 15 (2): 363–366. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1921.15.2.363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
Chapter 1 Preface Foreword Chapter 2 The Early Years Chapter 3 The Korean War Chapter 4 From the Trenches to Fort Benning Chapter 5 A Bolt Out of the Blue Chapter 6 The Challenge of Learning English Chapter 7 Encounter with the Unification Principle Chapter 8 Korea as the Chosen Nation Chapter 9 Why I Became…
The program opens with credits, narration, and historical clips. Different members of the religious community, Unificationism and otherwise, discuss the spiritual vacuum in modern society. Missionary work in underdeveloped nations and college campuses is also shown, ending at 26:34. The next program discusses the…
At 00:40, the first section begins, titled, "Perspective on The Fall of Man." This section focuses on Genesis and the fall of man. At 21:53 Rev. Sun Myung Moon, with a translator, gives a sermon on the same topic. At 26:30, there is a group of academics discussing disordered sexual relations/adultery. At 31:17, the…
The first section discusses God's nature and availability to the congregation. The next section begins at 23:21 with Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his translator covering similar topics, such as the morality of God and gaining God's Approval. The next section, at 41:02, is titled "Perspective on God's Blessings to Man."…
The first section is called "Perspective on the Reality of Satan," and focuses on the devil, his actions, and the spirit world. At 23:01, "Perceptive on Sinfulness" begins. This section is focused on good vs. evil, surrendering to God, and corruption. At 41:29, the next section begins, with Dr. Frederick Sontag…
The video opens with Dr. Joseph Bettis discussing the foundation of the Unification Church as well as Rev. Sun Myung Moon. At 03:55, Rev. Moon and his translator give a sermon on the Church's work in the United States, immorality of the U.S., the breakdown of the family unit, boundaries between Satan and humanity, and…
The first program, "Perspective on Resurrection," focuses on the spiritual body, interactions with the spiritual world, and vitality. At 20:44, four academics discuss eschatology in the Unification Church. At 27:04, A. Durwood Foster talks about similarities between other eschatologies and the Unification Church's…
The first section, "Perspective on Sin," begins at 0:34, covering types of sin and a lineage of salvation. At 20:46, Dr. A. Durwood Foster discusses the doctrine of the Fall in the Unification Church. At 22:24, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, with his translator, gives a sermon on how to love God properly. At 28:02, the next…
The video opens with Dr. A. Durwood Foster and other scholars discussing their research into the theology of Unification, the overlap between the other Christian denominations and necessary context. At 04:02, the section "Perspective on Prayer" begins touching on the uses/benefits of prayer. The next section titled,…