Cults: Choice or Coercion

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1979

Creator: CBS

Complete Record: Examines the reasons why young people are attracted to religious cults such as Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Includes interviews with a UC Berkeley professor, Dr. Margaret Singer, explaining cults’ recruitment techniques, one teenager who devoted two years to the Moonies, his parents, and the former Moonie who deprogramed him, in order to provide insight into the appeal of, techniques employed by, and psychological and emotional effects on cults. Near end, montage of Moonies protesting outside United States Capitol Building, fact- finding panel by Senator Robert Dole who speaks on religion.

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