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The Unification Church was virtually unknown in America until the
1970's when concerned parents, anti-cult groups and members of
congress raised alarm about the powerful "brainwashing" techniques
used by "moonies" to lure new converts into their dangerous cult.
Now that the self-proclaimed "messiah" Sun Myung Moon has died a
group of sociologists are defending the Unification Church. While
their beliefs and practices may strike most as odd they are hardly
the predatory cult some have made them out to be (these
sociologists claim). In particular, researchers of new religious
movements object to the pseudoscientific notion of
"brainwashing"--insisting that what compels people to join groups
like the Unification Church amounts to nothing more than ordinary
forces of group psychology at play in any religion. Anti-cult
groups have fired back accusing these researchers of engaging in
apologetics and secretly accepting financial kick-backs from the
same groups they defend. What is a cult and how is it different (if
at all) from a religion? Is there any scientific support for the
concept of brainwashing? We will attempt to answer these questions
and more. Also on this episode: violence across the Muslim world,
blasphemy laws backfire in Pakistan, and Mark Regnerus' research on
homosexual parenting is dissected for this weeks "God Thinks Like
You"
1970's when concerned parents, anti-cult groups and members of
congress raised alarm about the powerful "brainwashing" techniques
used by "moonies" to lure new converts into their dangerous cult.
Now that the self-proclaimed "messiah" Sun Myung Moon has died a
group of sociologists are defending the Unification Church. While
their beliefs and practices may strike most as odd they are hardly
the predatory cult some have made them out to be (these
sociologists claim). In particular, researchers of new religious
movements object to the pseudoscientific notion of
"brainwashing"--insisting that what compels people to join groups
like the Unification Church amounts to nothing more than ordinary
forces of group psychology at play in any religion. Anti-cult
groups have fired back accusing these researchers of engaging in
apologetics and secretly accepting financial kick-backs from the
same groups they defend. What is a cult and how is it different (if
at all) from a religion? Is there any scientific support for the
concept of brainwashing? We will attempt to answer these questions
and more. Also on this episode: violence across the Muslim world,
blasphemy laws backfire in Pakistan, and Mark Regnerus' research on
homosexual parenting is dissected for this weeks "God Thinks Like
You"
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