Home›Sources›Barker, "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction," Society Register, 2018SourcesBarker, "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction," Society Register, 2018Society Register 2(2), pp. 19-62Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Barker, "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction," Society Register, 2018." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/barker-unification-church-kaleidoscopic-introduction-2018.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Barker, "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction," Society Register, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/barker-unification-church-kaleidoscopic-introduction-2018Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-barker-the-unification-church-a-kaleidos, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Barker, "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction," Society Register, 2018}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/barker-unification-church-kaleidoscopic-introduction-2018}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA peer reviewed journal article by sociologist Eileen Barker, published in Society Register in 2018, giving an overview of the Unification Church's history, beliefs, organization and present state, including her own long term research findings on committed membership numbers in the West and figures reported at a 2014 movement conference.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (16 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedEileen BarkerPublisherWell-attestedSociety Register (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)Publication YearWell-attested2018URLWell-attestedhttps://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/article/view/17176Source TypeWell-attestedpeer-reviewed articleAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed journal article by the sociologist who founded INFORM and wrote the standard scholarly study of this movement, published seven years of her own fieldwork and named informants rather than repeating a secondary summary, and it states plainly where its own figures come from and where they cannot be pinned down.Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicNew Religious Movements, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 general references.Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Well-attested15New Religious MovementsUnification ChurchSourcesBarker, "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction," Society Register, 2018General References1New Religious MovementsUnification ChurchComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year