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Church in Arizona, United States Potter's House Christian Fellowship Christian Fellowship Ministries The Door, Victory Chapel 34°37′50.48″N 112°25′38.33″W / 34.6306889°N 112.4273139°W / 34.6306889; -112.4273139 (Potter's House) Location Prescott, Arizona Country United States Denomination Non-denominational, Pentecostal Previous denomination Foursquare Gospel Church ...
A church is a religious group that accepts the social environment in which it exists, a sect is a religious group that rejects it. [6] [2] The church-sect typology and the notion of a church-sect continuum or movement from the sect to the church came under strong attack in the sociology of religion of the 1960s onwards.
Unification Church (统一教; tǒngyī jiào), known as "The Moonies" in the US, founded by Korean-American Sun Myung Moon in Busan in 1954, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1997. [ 10 ] Sanban Puren Pai ( 三班仆人派 ; sān bān púrén pài ), a Christian sect founded by Xu Wenku in the 1990s, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1999.
Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith is a sociological book based on field study of a group of Unification Church members in California and Oregon. It was first published in 1966 and written by the sociologist John Lofland .
The church was founded in 1915 by R. A. Torrey. [1] The services were held at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola University), in a 4,000 seat auditorium. [2] [3] [4] J. Vernon McGee was pastor of the church from 1949 to 1970. [5] The church relocated to Glendora, California in 1985. [1]
In 2005, 1,500 people were regularly attending the church. [5] [6] [7] By 2010, about 4,000 people were watching the church's broadcast of worship on the church's official site. [8] Worships are broadcast by satellite in 37 countries and in Internet. [9] In 2015, the church had expansion work done in its building to create a capacity of 2,500 ...
In Japan, the academic study of new religions appeared in the years following the Second World War. [11] [12]In the 1960s, American sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.
A number of former adherents of IBLP programs have described the organization and/or associated circles as a cult. [ 4 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Don Veinot, president of Midwest Christian Outreach , says that the charismatic leader, authoritarian control, isolation of members, severe punishments, and demand for absolute and blind loyalty add up to IBLP ...