" Brown also quoted William Shaw, a broadcaster who was presenting the Cult Fiction series on BBC Radio Five Live: " Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.

Sun Myung Moon ( also known, to their dislike, as the Moonies ).

" In the same book, Anson Shupe, a sociologist known for his studies of religious issues, and David Bromley, a sociologist who has written extensively on new religious movements, also use the word Moonies to refer to members of the Unification Church.

Because Moonies aren't as prevalent in our society today as they were several years ago ... some might mentioned the mass weddings performed by Sun Myung Moon.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

He questioned the tactics of anti-cultists and their claims over brainwashing in several books and articles coauthored with Anson Shupe, such as Strange Gods, Moonies in America, and The New Vigilantes.

In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, playwright Tony Kushner used the term " Moonies " to refer to religious converts who lacked " spiritual liveliness or freedom of thought ".

A 1992 study by Jeffrey E. Pfeifer of the University of Virginia on " The Psychological Framing of Cults " found that 75. 51 % ( 74 of 98 ) of participating individuals were familiar with the word " Moonies ".

* Dialogue with the Moonies Article by a Christian theologian which praises the character of Unification Church members, yet uses the word Moonie.

In the 1990s, the Unification Church hired Dr. Abernathy as a spokesperson to protest the news media's use of the term " Moonies ", which they compared with the word " Nigger ".

The Moonies have nothing in common with all those psychedelic scallywags making weird and wonderful music on the northwest frontier.

The term ' love bombing ' originated with the Unification Church, the Moonies.

But semi-isolation makes it easier to indoctrinate neophytes and shut out adverse evidence and argument, an insight radical feminists share with Moonies, Hare Krishna, and other cultists.

The Moonies Live, Leadimll, Sheffield: " It takes something solid to open a show for the mighty Buzzcocks and the Moonies-part of the Merseyside revival-offer something suitable for them this weekend.

" In 1989 the Chicago Tribune was picketed after referring to members of the Unification Church as Moonies.

Depending on the condition, subjects were led to believe that the group was either the Moonies, the Marines, or the Catholic Church.

" Judge Gerard L. Goettel instructed the jury that the case involved the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, and his followers, whom the judge stated were " sometimes referred to as Moonies.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

Watabe said about her former religious affiliation: " We ' Moonies ' were willing to sacrifice personal choice to spin gold out of the raw silk of ourselves, to help create world harmony through family harmony.

In 2009 The Daily Telegraph suggested that the Manchester City football club be nicknamed " The Blue Moonies " for their " evangelical zeal.

She commented in the book's introduction: " Mention the name ' Moonies ' to anyone in the West today, and the chances are that you will receive an immediate reaction which falls somewhere between a delicate shudder and an indignant outburst of fury.

Jenkins mentions use of the word in book titles including Life among the Moonies and Escape from the Moonies, and comments: " These titles further illustrate how the derogatory term ' Moonie ' became a standard for members of this denomination, in a way that would have been inconceivable for any of the insulting epithets that could be applied to, say, Catholics or Jews.

* Married to the Moonies 2011 British documentary.

In her 1984 book The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing ?, based on close to seven years of study of Unification Church members ( informally called " Moonies ") in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Moonies were an alternative rock band from Liverpool, England, who existed from 2001 to 2005.

In 2001, they changed their name to The Moonies, a name inspired by Banks ' affection and admiration of Keith Moon and were signed by Plastic Boot Records under the music management company Tri-Tone and Music Publisher EMI.

Unfortunately, Steve Banks left the group in 2005 and The Moonies disbanded.

The Moonies are a three piece who hail from The Beatles end of Liverpool, but if you ’ re expecting their location to be obvious in their sound, then you ’ re going to be disappointed.

Taking their cues from the antics of Keith Moon and the sound of The Who and Ash, The Moonies are a hedonistic hit band waiting to happen.

They also routinely toured in Argentina before World War II.

A number of Andreyev's students also toured the west from 1909 to 1912.

Karno selected his new star to join a fraction of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit ; he also signed Chaplin to a new contract, which doubled his pay.

Berry also toured with his Aloha band, while Dean began performing with a band called Papa Doo Run Run.

Interestingly, in 1979, Jan also performed over 100 concerts of Jan and Dean songs with another front man from Hawaii, Randy Ruff, so Torrence toured briefly as " Mike & Dean ," with Mike Love of the Beach Boys.

Jardine also visited Frank Foster who had toured Australia in 1911 – 12 to discuss field-placing in Australia.

The Parker quintet also toured widely.

With this revamped formation, Davis began a year during which the sextet performed and toured extensively and produced a record ( 1958 Miles, also known as 58 Sessions ).

The Goo Goo Dolls also toured in support for the band's final tour.

Connick also toured North America in support of this album.

Many visiting dignitaries toured the Palace, and it also hosted performances by notable international artists, such as a 1967 concert by the Rolling Stones, the first by a major western rock group behind the Iron Curtain.

He also toured in that role.

Since 1986, Tork has intermittently toured with his former band mates and also played with his own bands The Peter Tork Project and Shoe Suede Blues.

He toured Europe and Australia and also developed the sousaphone, a large brass instrument similar to the tuba.

1 ), Steve Jolliffe ( wind instruments and vocals on Cyclone and the following tour ; he was also part of a short-lived 1969 line-up ), Ralf Wadephul ( in collaboration with Edgar Froese recorded album Blue Dawn, but it was released only in 2006 ; also credited for one track on Optical Race ( 1988 ) and toured with the band in support of this album ), and Linda Spa ( saxophonist who appeared on numerous albums and concerts between 1990 and 1996, as well as 2005 onwards ).

The Windmill girls also toured other London and provincial theatres, sometimes using ingenious devices such as rotating ropes to move their bodies round, though strictly speaking, staying within the letter of the law by not moving of their own volition.

He also portrayed the Doctor in the stage play Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure which toured theatres in the United Kingdom from March to June 1989.

The group also toured Australia in 1957, and in 1958 enjoyed a successful ( if riot-dominated ) tour of the European mainland.

After 1974, tax and management problems prevented Haley from performing in the United States, so he performed in Europe almost exclusively, though he also toured South America in 1975.

They toured with Sinéad O ' Connor in the first half of 1988 ( Rourke also appeared on her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got ).

The town also supports one of the largest and most successful youth theatres in Ireland ( Droichead Youth Theatre ) which has toured to Belfast, London, Italy, and Sweden.

In 1990 Emerson toured with The Best, a short-lived supergroup which also included John Entwistle, Joe Walsh, Jeff " Skunk " Baxter and Simon Phillips.

This famous production also toured the country in 1938.

The same year, Smith also recorded and toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees, contributing as guitarist on their Nocturne live video and their Hyaena studio album.