EndNote Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Destroying the World to Save It Aum Shinrikyō, Apocalyptic Violence, and the the New Global Terrorism (Book) : Lifton, Robert Jay : National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on ending it all. Lifton’s title captures a key aspect of Aum’s fantasy, in which the world needed to be destroyed in order to purify it of what Aum saw as its evil, poisonous and threatening nature, and in which destruction and killing became legitimate acts designed, in the minds of their perpetrators, to save the very people who were being killed. $7.99 . The strengths of his work lie more in his discussions of how enclosed groups can create a ‘reality’ within their environment that becomes an overriding force and impels them towards actions that would appear crazy from a rational perspective.
Room. 4 Want to read; Published October 21, 1999 by … Destroying the World to Save It Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism 1st edition by Robert Jay Lifton.
In particular he links the Aum case to a variety of other examples well-known to scholars of religion, such as the denouement of Heaven’s Gate in California, the Jonestown murder-suicides of 1978, the Branch Davidians at Waco, and the apocalyptic aspects of the Christian Identity movement in the USA. Lifton sees the affair primarily in psychological terms (there is little chronicling of events or analysis of how the historical development of Aum impacted on its activities) and seeks to identify in particular the characteristics and psychological orientation of its guru, Asahara, as a dominant theme in the affair. Fake-Green Zero Carbon Fraud — “Destroying The World to Save It” ... A recent expose of the Australian position shows successive governments destroying the vital South East Australian river systems by deliberately siphoning-off huge volumes of river water and hoarding it in a large number of specially constructed reservoirs. Skip this list. Add to cart Buy Now Add to Wishlist Remove from Wishlist. Although he emphasises the Japanese social and cultural characteristics that he sees evident in Aum, he does not see Aum as simply a Japanese phenomenon, but shows how the patterns and themes it evoked are found in apocalyptic thinking elsewhere. It may have been misquoted, revised, apocryphal, or invented. JabRef Books related to Destroying the World to Save It. USD 139.00 In: Drožđek B., Wilson J.P. (eds) Voices of Trauma. 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. Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Rob LaBelle, Gardiner Millar, Camille Sullivan. mo-society that is perfectly happy for us to die. Here Lifton can draw on his own extended and copious previous studies of groups (for example, the Nazi doctors he studied), that have created their own worlds (of delusion) and frameworks of justification and legitimation for their deeds, to show how such processes occurred also in Aum. Springer, Boston, MA BibTeX
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” The infamous Vietnam-era quotation may or may not have been uttered by an anonymous U.S. Army major.
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