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Messiahs on the rise as new redeemers spread
A sweeping look at a religious market in flux shows Sun Myung Moon and other self-styled saviors gaining followers. Berkeley and Washington scenes illustrate a broader hunger for personal salvation, with Moon’s Unification Church claiming 10,000 U S members and 2 million worldwide while critics warn of control and manipulation.
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Sun Myung Moon
Moon
New Redeemers
White House
University of California
Berkeley
Donald Heinz
Heinz
Jesus
William Emerson
Santo
Hollywood
Pat Boone
New York
Bowery
Norby Chen
Chicago
John Scudder
Frederick Eikentrotter
Ike
Earth
Heaven
Ernest Henry Adams
the Redeemer's “Unification Church
America
Washington
Oon
Presbyterian Church
National Council of Churches
Vincent Peale
NCC
Jorge Lara Brand
Maureen Orth
Vietnam