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Destroying the world to save it : Aum Shinrikyō, apocalyptic violence, and the new global terrorism

"Sobering exploration of how Aum's guru, Shoko Asahara created a religion from a global stew of New Age thinking, ancient religious practices, and apocalyptic science fiction. Lifton explores a historically unprecedented phenomenon, a twenty-first century in which cults and terrorists may be able to create their own holocausts"--Jacket

Print Book, English, 1999
1st ed
Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1999