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Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan

The Case of Aum Shinrikyō

by Ian Reader

Reader's study traces the development of Aum Shinrikyō from a yoga group to a movement that carried out the 1995 Tokyo sarin attack. He emphasises internal dynamics, apocalyptic belief and the leader's role. The leading scholarly account of the case.

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