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In the 1950s and 80s, the Unification Church set up media companies, research centers, and educational institutions that focused on anti-communist ideologies. The media heavily criticizeed them for possibly leading to nuclear war. [3] [4] [5] The Unification Church also took part in politics, particularly concerning the reunification of Korea.
The Unification Church sold seven of its twelve principal church centers after the ruling. [297] Other anti-cultists in countries like Germany sought to incorporate the London High Court's decision into law. [292] The Unification Church has won other libel and defamation cases in the United Kingdom, including a similar case against The Daily ...
In the documentary The Resurrection of Reverend Moon (January 21, 1992), the PBS television series Frontline produced a copy of a letter to Moon, from Unification Church of the United States leader James Gavin. He told Moon that he had reviewed the overall tone and factual contents of the book before publication and suggested revisions.
[56] In the same book, sociologists Anson Shupe and David Bromley, both noted for their studies of new religious movements, also use the word "Moonies" to refer to members of the Unification Church. [56] In his 1998 book Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action, Shupe notes that Barker, Bromley, and he himself had used the term in other ...
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Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church is a nonfiction book about the Unification Church and its founder and leader, Sun Myung Moon.It was written by Frederick Sontag, a professor of philosophy at Pomona College and a minister in the United Church of Christ., [1] and published by Abingdon Press in 1977.
On October 15, 1981, [1] Moon was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with three counts of willfully filing false federal income tax returns (for the years 1973, 1974, and 1975) under 26 U.S.C. § 7206, and one count of conspiracy—under 18 U.S.C. § 371—to file false income tax returns, to obstruct justice, to make false statements to government officials, and to make false ...