The Moonies and the Anti-Cultists: Movement and Countermovement in Conflict
This paper considers a relatively neglected topic in social movements research: the structural conditions under which counter-movements emerge and expand and the relation of the counter-movement's mobilization strategies and tactics to those of the movement(s) which it opposes. The primary move...
| Published in: | Sociological analysis |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1979
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1979, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 325-334 |
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| Summary: | This paper considers a relatively neglected topic in social movements research: the structural conditions under which counter-movements emerge and expand and the relation of the counter-movement's mobilization strategies and tactics to those of the movement(s) which it opposes. The primary movement analyzed is the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon (as the most prominent of the “new” religious movements in America), and its characteristics as a “world-transforming movement” (in particular its ideology, organizational style, economic resources, and recruitment/socialization practices) are examined in terms of their potential for generating societal conflict. The counter-movement examined is what has been labelled the American anti-cult movement. Drawing upon a wide variety of published and unpublished sources gathered during the authors' three-year study of both movements, the anti-cult movement's institutional origins in the family and (secondarily) in organized religion, as well as the controversial tactics it adopted (including deprogramming), are considered relative to specific aspects of the “Moonies” and similar groups. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709961 |