This is part 4 of 7 for my graduation thesis on the “Aum Affair” in Japan – a biological attack on the public by a Japanese “New New Religion.” This section will give a brief history of the “New Religion,” Aum Shinrikyo. For the introduction (part 1), click here. For an explanation of the first and second stages of Japanese religion (part 2), click here. For an explanation of the third and fourth stages of Japanese religion (part 3), click here. This is part two in a seven-part essay on the Aum Affair in Japan. It was written (by me) in late November as my graduation thesis. I originally did not plan on “publishing” it – but I am on my honeymoon for the next six weeks and will not be able to blog while I am abroad. In the mean time, I broke the capstone graduation thesis into seven parts and scheduled them to publish while I was gone. This topic, Aum Shinrikyo, is relevant to me because: 1. My husband’s father was a prominent police officer during the affair and was in charge of raiding and arresting Aum members 2. I am a Christian who has spent copious amounts of [...]
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