Destroying the world to save it

Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism

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Destroying the world to save it

Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism

1st ed.
  • 8 Want to read

"With unusual access to former Aum members, Lifton has produced a study of the inner life of a modern millennial cult, offering a subtle portrait of how guru and disciples reinforce each other's wildest destructive fantasies.

Lifton offers a sobering exploration of how Aum's guru, Shoko Asahara - charismatic leader, con man, madman - created a religion from a global stew of New Age thinking, ancient religious practices, and apocalyptic science fiction; of how he recruited scientists as disciples and set them to producing the "poor man's atomic bomb" (chemical and biological weapons).

Through Aum, Lifton explores a historically unprecedented phenomenon, a twenty-first century in which cults and terrorists may be able to create their own holocausts."--BOOK JACKET. "Taking stock as well of Charles Manson, the Heaven's Gate cult, and the Oklahoma City bombers, Lifton argues that Aum Shinrikyo was not just a "nightmare of Japanese religion," but a global nightmare that revealed a world unexpectedly at risk."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
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374

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Cover of: Destroying the World to Save It
Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
September 1, 2000, Owl Books
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Cover of: Destroying the world to save it
Destroying the world to save it: Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism
1999, Henry Holt and Co., Metropolitan Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Destroying the World to Save It
Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
October 21, 1999, Metropolitan Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-358) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
299/.93
Library of Congress
BP 605 .O88 L54 1999, BP605.O88 L54 1999, BP605.O88L54 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
374 p. ;
Number of pages
374

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18820479M
Internet Archive
destroyingworldt0000lift_u0p4
ISBN 10
0805052909
LCCN
99023905
OCLC/WorldCat
41355654, 179274001
Library Thing
180909
Goodreads
3313562

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One can look at the guru of a fanatical new religion or cult as either everything or nothing.
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