Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan
Title | Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Reader |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013-10-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113681941X |
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 Aum's 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 Aum's spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious patterns. Asahara's teaching are examined from his earliest public pronouncements through to his sermons at the time of the attack, and statements he has made in court. In analysing how 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: Aum's 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.
Japan, 1991
Title | Japan, 1991 PDF eBook |
Author | Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff |
Publisher | Fodor's |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1990-12-26 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780679019220 |
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
Title | The Cambridge History of the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Melvyn P. Leffler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 663 |
Release | 2010-03-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521837197 |
This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Japanese Literature in Japan 1991
Title | Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Japanese Literature in Japan 1991 PDF eBook |
Author | Kokusai-Nihon-Bungaku-Kenkyū-Shūkai (15, 1991, Tōkyō) |
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Release | 1991 |
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Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan
Title | Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Asiatic Society of Japan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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List of transactions, v. 1-41 in v. 41.
Dr. Deming
Title | Dr. Deming PDF eBook |
Author | Rafael Aguayo |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1991-09-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0671746219 |
Explains the Deming Management Method that was created by the man who helped Japan learn about product quality and business management.
Japan Festibaru 1991
Title | Japan Festibaru 1991 PDF eBook |
Author | Japan Fesutibaru 1991 Jikko Iinkai |
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Release | 1992 |
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