170. Choi, Syn-Duk. "A Comparative Study of Two New Religious Movements in the Republic of Korea: The Unification Church and the Full Gospel Central Church." In New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change edited by James A. Beckford. Paris and Beverly Hills, CA: UNESCO and Sage Publishers, 1986: 113-45.

At present there are about 300 NRMs in Korea. They arise due to precarious social conditions such as new religious freedoms, rapid social change and mobility, and failures of existing groups. Both discussed here (FGCC was founded by the Rev. Yonggi Cho) have had great success. Cho was a good student but underwent a health crisis, undertook missionary work, and had a vision promising cure. He joined a seminary (Full Gospel) and started his tent church in 1958. His associate, a woman named Choi, had similar experiences. His charisma increased after healings and conversions. By 1961 he was drawing hundreds, and a month-long revival was a "crucial" success. He built a church against economic reason and thrived. His is now a major TV and live church. Sun Myung Moon (of the UC) underwent similar visions and crises: arrests and torture, divorce. Choi contradicts Lofland 1977a (see item 439) in saying that Moon did write the Divine Principles in about 1950. His supporters were expelled as heretics from Christian schools. Young-oon Kim is Lofland's "Miss Lee." His basic families are to be foundations of the unified family of man.

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