Moon’s book challenged for veracity and identity position

A REVIEW OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON

by George D. Chryssides

A paper presented at the CESNUR 2011 International Conference in Danshui, Taiwan.

An autobiography might be challenged on two different grounds: one might question the veracity of the material, or one might question whether the author’s identity position is a valid one, and whether there might be other more appropriate ways of viewing the narrator’s life.

What I want to show is how Sun Myung Moon’s As a Peace-loving Global Citizen (2010) can be challenged on both grounds.

Read the review: http://www.cesnur.org/2011/dan-chryssides2.pdf



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See the ‘Autobiography’ page 66: Sun Myung Moon went to a Technical High School in Tokyo. He never went to Waseda University or any other university. His name was nowhere to be found on the Waseda University student roll.

Michael Breen: “Classes at the technical high school [in Tokyo] were in the evenings between 6:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. which left him free during the daytime.” Sun Myung Moon, the early years (page 58)

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Moon fraud: ‘Autobiography’ buying-up fund in Korea exceeded 2 billion won (about 200 million yen)

Here is how the FFWPU described the “Moon Autobiography” operation in Korea at the time.

Publisher of Moon’s Autobiography in Korea jailed for 4 years for corruption.

A significant review of Moon’s Autobiography by Dr George Chryssides. He looks at the form and the content of the book, and asks why many significant questions were not touched on.

It seems the manufacture of Moon’s Autobiography was a last desperate attempt to promote Moon for the Nobel Peace Prize.



“책사재기에만 비자금 20억원 사용” 출판계, 부끄러운 민낯을 드러내다