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The Unification Church first came to public notice in the United States after sociology student John Lofland studied Young Oon Kim's group and published his findings as a doctoral thesis entitled: The World Savers: A Field Study of Cult Processes, which was published in 1966 in book form by Prentice-Hall as Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion ...
The Unification Church sold seven of its twelve principal church centers after the ruling. [297] Other anti-cultists in countries like Germany sought to incorporate the London High Court's decision into law. [292] The Unification Church has won other libel and defamation cases in the United Kingdom, including a similar case against The Daily ...
In the 1970s the Unification Church of the United States began making major real estate investments. Church buildings were purchased around the nation. In New York State the Belvedere Estate, the Unification Theological Seminary, and the New Yorker Hotel were purchased.
Ek Nath Dhakal, Nepalese politician. [16]Mose Durst – President of the Unification Church of the United States in the 1980s, author, educator. [17]David Eaton (born July 2, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and conductor who has been the music director of the New York City Symphony since 1985.
By the early 1970s, Unification Church members were being used by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as campaign workers without compensation. LDP politicians were also required to visit the Unification Church headquarters in South Korea and receive Moon's lectures on theology, regardless of their religious views or membership.
Unification Church of the United States This page was last edited on 5 November 2024, at 14:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Bo Hi Pak (August 18, 1930 – January 12, 2019 in Korea.Korean: 박보희/朴普熙) was a prominent member of the Unification Church.During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a major leader in the church movement, leading projects such as newspapers (notably The Washington Times), schools, performing arts projects, political projects such as the anti-communist organization CAUSA International, and ...
It was founded in 1963 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon (following the purchase of a surplus Japanese lathe in 1962 [1]) as a nonprofit organization which would provide revenue for the Unification Church. Its core focus was manufacturing but in the 1970s and 1980s it expanded by founding or acquiring businesses in pharmaceuticals ...