Ian Reader's Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan, published by Curzon Press in 2000, is a scholarly study of Aum Shinrikyo and the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, examining how the movement's teaching and organization led to religiously motivated violence. Reader is an established scholar of Japanese religion. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed academic monograph combining close reading of Aum's own teachings with sociological analysis of the movement's structure. Its limit is that it was published in 2000, close to the events themselves, so a claim about Aum's later reconstitution as Aleph and Hikari no Wa needs a more recent source alongside this study.
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Published by Curzon Press in 2000, Ian Reader's peer reviewed academic monograph by an established scholar of Japanese religion, combining close textual reading with sociological analysis, treated at the top tier. NotesScholarly study of Aum Shinrikyo and religious violence in contemporary Japan.
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AuthorIan Reader
PublisherCurzon Press
Publication Year2000
Source Typebook
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This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- New Religious Movements, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Years, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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