Unification Church

== Popular terminologies ==
{{main|Moonie (nickname)}}
Moon did not originally intend on founding a separate organization or denomination,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moon |first=Sun Myung |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/638962627 |title=As a peace-loving global citizen |date=2011 |publisher=Washington Times Foundation |isbn=978-0-615-39377-3 |location=[Washington, D.C.] |pages=121–122 |language=en |chapter=Chapter three, part "A Church with No Denomination" |oclc=638962627 |chapter-url=http://www.euro-tongil.org/swedish/english/TFbiography%20v1.pdf}}</ref> and did not give his group of followers its official name, Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity ({{Korean|hangul=세계 기독교 통일 신령 협회|rr=Segye Gidoggyo Tong-il Sinryeong Hyeobhoe|labels=no}}), until 1954.<ref name= Barker2012/> The informal name "Unification Church" ({{Korean|labels=no|hangul=통일교|rr=Tongilgyo}}) has been commonly used by members, the public, and the news media.<ref>{{cite book |title=Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains |author=U. S. Department of the Army |publisher=The Minerva Group, Inc. |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-89875-607-4 |pages=1-41 to 1-47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gDQfnMUI6gC}}</ref> By 2018, the term "Unification Movement" was also widely used.<ref>{{cite web |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/fashion/weddings/unification-parents-are-primary-matchmakers-for-their-children.html |title=Unification Parents Are Primary Matchmakers for Their Children |last=Petri |first=Alexandra E. |date=September 26, 2018 |access-date=September 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

''Moonie'', the colloquial term for members,<ref name="miller">{{cite book |last= Miller |first= Timothy |title= America's Alternative Religions |url= https://archive.org/details/americasalternat00mill |url-access= registration |publisher= State University of New York Press |year= 1995 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/americasalternat00mill/page/223 223], 414 |isbn= 978-0-7914-2398-1}}</ref> was first used in 1974 by some American media outlets.<ref name="pacnews">{{cite news |title= Church leaders unite against Moonies |work= [[PacNews]] |publisher= [[Pacific Island News Agency Service]] |date= February 17, 2006}}</ref> In the 1980s and 1990s the [[Unification Church of the United States]] undertook an extensive [[public relations]] campaign against the use of the word by the [[news media]].<ref name="helvarg">{{cite book | last =Helvarg | first =David | author-link =David Helvarg | title =The War Against the Greens| publisher =Johnson Books | year =2004 | page =211 | isbn = 978-1-55566-328-5}}</ref><ref name="hatch">{{cite news | last = Hatch | first = Walter | title = Big names lend luster to group's causes – Church leader gains legitimacy among U.S. conservatives | newspaper = [[The Seattle Times]] | page = A1 | publisher = Seattle Times Company | date = February 13, 1989 }}</ref>

In other contexts it is still sometimes used and not always considered pejorative,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shupe |first1=Anson D. |first2=Bronislaw |last2=Misztal |date=1998 |title=Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action |publisher=Praeger |pages=197, 213, 215 |isbn=978-0-275-95625-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Philip |date=2000 |title=Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=28, 200 |isbn=0-19-512744-7}}</ref> as Unification Church members have used the word—including the president of the [[Unification Theological Seminary]] David Kim,<ref name="shupe">{{cite book |last1= Shupe |first1= Anson D. |author-link= Anson Shupe |first2=Bronislaw |last2=Misztal |title= Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action |publisher= Praeger |year= 1998 |pages= 197, 213, 215 |isbn=978-0-275-95625-7}}</ref> [[Bo Hi Pak]], Moon's aide and president of [[Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea]],<ref name="ofcom">{{cite journal |title= Complaint by Mr Robin Marsh on behalf of The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification – UK (formerly known as the Unification Church) |journal= Broadcast Bulletin |issue= 54 |publisher= www.ofcom.org.uk |date= February 20, 2006 |url= http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/pcb41/ |access-date= 2009-09-28 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100330095313/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/obb/prog_cb/pcb41/ |archive-date= March 30, 2010 }}</ref> and Moon himself.<ref name="enroth">{{cite book |last= Enroth |first= Ronald M. |title= A Guide To New Religious Movements |publisher= InterVarsity Press |year= 2005 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739454954/page/69 69, 72] |isbn= 978-0-8308-2381-9 |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739454954/page/69 }}</ref>

Many Unification Church members consider the word "Moonie" derogatory, but will use it amongst themselves, in the same way that Black people have come to "own" the word "[[Nigger#Intra-group versus intergroup usage|nigger]]", or Irish people call each other "Paddies", but might consider its use by others a slur.<ref>Eileen Barker. "The Unification Church: A Kaleidoscopic Introduction." ''Society Register'' 2, no. 2 (2018): 19–62.</ref>

Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, are regarded by Unificationists as "True Father" and "True Mother", respectively, and as "True Parents" collectively.