Will the Unification Church Survive without Moon?
Eileen Barker. (Photo: Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science)
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Eileen Barker, Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Religion at the London School of Economics about the viability of the Unification Church following the death of its patriarch Sun Myung Moon earlier Monday.
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