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RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN IBD

IAN READER
ROUTLEDGE
04 / 2000
9780700711093
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Sinopsis

The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at AumâÇÖs claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly focussed on yoga, meditation, asceticism and the pursuit of enlightenment become involved in violent activities? Reader discusses AumâÇÖs spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious patterns. AsaharaâÇÖs teaching are examinedáfrom his earliest public pronouncements through to his sermons at the time of the attack, and statements he has made in court. Ináanalysingáhow Aum not only manufactured nerve gases but constructed its own internal doctrinal justifications for using them Reader focuses on the formation of what made all this possible: AumâÇÖs internal thought-world, and on how this was developed. Reader argues that despite the horrors of this particular case, Aum should not be seen as unique, nor as solely a political or criminal terror group. Rather it can best be analysed within the context of religious violence, as an extreme example of a religious movement that has created friction with the wider world that escalated into violence.

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