Heidemarie Winklel: Eileen Barker: The Making of a Moonie. Choice or Brainwashing? (1984). Juli 2019, S.368, doi:10.1007/978-3-658-15250-5_41 (370 S.): „Barkers Studie ist in Großbritannien nicht nur im akademischen Kontext vielfach rezipiert worden; ihre Arbeit über die Vereinigungskirche fand
auch auf gesellschaftlicher, politischer und kirchlicher Ebene im Zusammenhang der polarisierten Debatten über neue religiöse Bewegungen große Resonanz“
Eileen Barker: The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must Be Joking! In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 34. Jahrgang, Nr.3, September 1995, S.287–310, doi:10.2307/1386880, JSTOR:1386880 (englisch).
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Eileen Barker: The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must Be Joking! In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 34. Jahrgang, Nr.3, September 1995, S.287–310, doi:10.2307/1386880, JSTOR:1386880 (englisch).
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Michael Langone: Announcing Cultic Studies Review. In: Cultic Studies Review. 1. Jahrgang, Nr.1. International Cultic Studies Association, Bonita Springs 2002 (englisch, culticstudiesreview.org (Memento des Originals vom 12. Mai 2008 im Internet Archive)): “By taking over the functions of these three periodicals, CSR is able to offer peer-reviewed, scholarly articles, news on groups and topics (e.g., children and cultic groups), opinion columns, personal accounts of ex-members, and high quality articles for laypersons”
Dialogue and Cultic Studies. (Originaltitel: Dialogue and Cultic Studies: Why Dialogue Benefits the Cultic Studies Field). In: ICSA Today. Nr.3. The International Cultic Studies Association, 2013 (englisch, icsahome.com (Memento des Originals vom 3. Oktober 2023 im Internet Archive) [abgerufen am 7. Mai 2024]): “The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA—formerly American Family Foundation, AFF [1]), in its nearly thirty-five-year history, has always been committed to freedom of expression, freedom of mind, [2] openness, and dialogue. During the past 15 years, an appreciation for these values has increased throughout ICSA’s broad network. This change is particularly evident at the organization’s annual conference, where participants can now choose to accept, reject, or study further a much wider variety of viewpoints than would have been available to them 30 years ago. We wish to reflect on these changes so that others will better understand and appreciate both why we welcome diverse views, and why we also can honor people with opposing viewpoints. [3]”
Laurence R. Iannaccone: The Market for Martyrs. In: Research Gate. September 2006, S. 4, 5, archiviert vom Original am 9. Mai 2024; abgerufen am 9. Mai 2024 (englisch): „People were free to leave, and leave they did. Barker’s extensive enumerations
showed that among the recruits who went so far as to attend two-day retreats (claimed to be Moonie’s most effective means of “brainwashing”), fewer than 25% joined the group for more than a week and only 5% remained full-time members one year later. And, of course, most contacts dropped out before attending a retreat. Of all those who visited a Moonie centre at least once, not one in two-hundred remained in the movement two years later. With failure rates exceeding 99.5%, it comes as no surprise that full-time Moonie membership in the U.S. never exceeded a few thousand. And this was one of the most 5 successful New Religious Movements of the era! When researchers began checking (as
opposed to merely repeating) the numbers claimed by leaders, defectors, and journalists, they found similarly low retention rates in nearly all “cults.”“
Michael Langone: Announcing Cultic Studies Review. In: Cultic Studies Review. 1. Jahrgang, Nr.1. International Cultic Studies Association, Bonita Springs 2002 (englisch, culticstudiesreview.org (Memento des Originals vom 12. Mai 2008 im Internet Archive)): “By taking over the functions of these three periodicals, CSR is able to offer peer-reviewed, scholarly articles, news on groups and topics (e.g., children and cultic groups), opinion columns, personal accounts of ex-members, and high quality articles for laypersons”
Dialogue and Cultic Studies. (Originaltitel: Dialogue and Cultic Studies: Why Dialogue Benefits the Cultic Studies Field). In: ICSA Today. Nr.3. The International Cultic Studies Association, 2013 (englisch, icsahome.com (Memento des Originals vom 3. Oktober 2023 im Internet Archive) [abgerufen am 7. Mai 2024]): “The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA—formerly American Family Foundation, AFF [1]), in its nearly thirty-five-year history, has always been committed to freedom of expression, freedom of mind, [2] openness, and dialogue. During the past 15 years, an appreciation for these values has increased throughout ICSA’s broad network. This change is particularly evident at the organization’s annual conference, where participants can now choose to accept, reject, or study further a much wider variety of viewpoints than would have been available to them 30 years ago. We wish to reflect on these changes so that others will better understand and appreciate both why we welcome diverse views, and why we also can honor people with opposing viewpoints. [3]”
Laurence R. Iannaccone: The Market for Martyrs. In: Research Gate. September 2006, S. 4, 5, archiviert vom Original am 9. Mai 2024; abgerufen am 9. Mai 2024 (englisch): „People were free to leave, and leave they did. Barker’s extensive enumerations
showed that among the recruits who went so far as to attend two-day retreats (claimed to be Moonie’s most effective means of “brainwashing”), fewer than 25% joined the group for more than a week and only 5% remained full-time members one year later. And, of course, most contacts dropped out before attending a retreat. Of all those who visited a Moonie centre at least once, not one in two-hundred remained in the movement two years later. With failure rates exceeding 99.5%, it comes as no surprise that full-time Moonie membership in the U.S. never exceeded a few thousand. And this was one of the most 5 successful New Religious Movements of the era! When researchers began checking (as
opposed to merely repeating) the numbers claimed by leaders, defectors, and journalists, they found similarly low retention rates in nearly all “cults.”“
