Religious Violence In Contemporary Japan: The Case Of Aum Shinrikyo

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This study looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks why a religious movement ostensibly focused on yoga, meditation, asceticism, and pursuit of enlightenment became involved in violent activities. Reader places the sect in the context of contemporary Japanese religious patterns, discussing developments in Asahara Shoko's personality and teachings, Aum's millennialism and its developing hostilit...

Paperback: 310 pages
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (May 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824823400
ISBN-13: 978-0824823405
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 1440464
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This is such a well written book. I'd read Murakami's "Underground," which was a series of interviews with victims and perpetrators of the Aum attacks. But that book, while doing its job in humanizing those involved, does very little to explain how...



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ciety, and compares Aum with other religious and political movements that turned to violence, both in Japan and elsewhere. He concludes that Aum is not unique, nor is it solely a political or criminal terror group. It must rather be analyzed as an extreme example of a religious movement which, largely due to its own religious characteristics, came into friction with the surrounding society and developed into violence.