Editing Eileen Barker (section)

==''The Making of a Moonie''==
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Her 1984 book ''[[The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?]]'' is based on close to seven years of study of [[Unification Church]] members (informally called "[[Moonie (Unification Church)|Moonies]]") in the United Kingdom and the United States. [[Laurence Iannaccone]] of [[George Mason University]], a specialist in the [[theory of religious economy|economics of religion]], wrote that ''The Making of a Moonie'' was "one of the most comprehensive and influential studies" of the process of conversion to new religious movements.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120111212356/http://faculty.arec.umd.edu/cmcausland/RALi/The%20Market%20for%20Martyrs.pdf The Market for Martyrs], [[Laurence Iannaccone]], George Mason University, 2006, "One of the most comprehensive and influential studies was The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing? by Eileen Barker (1984).</ref>