AUM SHINRIKYO AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGION IN JAPAN
We are awash in information about Aum, and details concerning this group and its crimes continue to come to light as the court proceeding against its members. Progress. What is still lacking, however, is a credible interpretive framework to explain Aum’s development and the motivation of its follow...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1998
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| In: |
Scriptura
Year: 1998, Volume: 64, Pages: 27-36 |
| Further subjects: | B
Aum Shinrikyo
B religion in Japan |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | We are awash in information about Aum, and details concerning this group and its crimes continue to come to light as the court proceeding against its members. Progress. What is still lacking, however, is a credible interpretive framework to explain Aum’s development and the motivation of its followers The media and legal system in Japan seem to have fixed on two theories commonly applied to destructive religious groups in the West namely social tension and mind control. |
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| ISSN: | 2305-445X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scriptura
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7833/64-0-1494 |