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Destroying the World to Save it - Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism (Paperback)
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Destroying the World to Save it - Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism (Paperback)
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National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay
Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on
ending it all.
Since the earliest moments of recorded history, prophets and gurus
have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it
been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to
bring his prophecy to pass. Now Robert Jay Lifton offers a vivid
and disturbing case in point in this chilling exploration of Aum
Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the
Tokyo subways.
With unprecedented access to former Aum members, Lifton has
produced a pathbreaking study of the inner life of a modern
millennial cult. He shows how Aum's guru Shoko Asahara (charismatic
spiritual leader, con man, madman) created a religion from a global
stew of New Age thinking, ancient rituals, and apocalyptic science
fiction, then recruited scientists as disciples and set them to
producing weapons of mass destruction. Taking stock as well of
Charles Manson, Heaven's Gate, and the Oklahoma City bombers,
Lifton confronts the frightening possibility of a twenty-first
century in which cults and terrorists may be able to bring about
their own holocausts.
Bold and compelling, Destroying the World to Save It charts the
emergence of a new global threat of urgent concern to us all.
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