One can look at the guru of a fanatical new religion or cult as either everything or nothing.
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Destroying the world to save it
Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism
1st ed.
by Robert Jay Lifton
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"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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Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
September 1, 2000, Owl Books
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Destroying the world to save it: Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism
1999, Henry Holt and Co., Metropolitan Books
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0805052909 9780805052909
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Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
October 21, 1999, Metropolitan Books
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- 1st edition
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