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Scholarly Reactions to the Aum and Waco Incidents |
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Dorman, Benjamin
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.39 n.1 |
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| Date | 2012 |
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| Pages | 153 - 177 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Benjamin Dorman is a permanent fellow at Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. |
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| Keyword | Branch Davidians; new religious movements (nrms); fieldwork; Waco |
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| Abstract | This article investigates some scholarly reactions towards the Aum incident of
March 1995 and the incident of 1993 involving the Branch Davidians in Waco,
Texas. The Waco incident began on 28 February 1993 with an armed exchange
in which four federal agents and six Branch Davidians died, and ended on 19
April 1993 with the deaths of seventy-six Branch Davidians. While both incidents
highlighted questions that democracies face in terms of the balance
between protecting religious freedom and guaranteeing public safety, they also
highlighted stark cultural differences in reactions, approaches, and expectations
between scholars in Japan and the West, particularly the United States.
There is, of course, a danger in attempting to compare the same research methods
and assumptions scholars generally operate on in one region to another,
in conjunction with prevailing social and cultural attitudes. Nevertheless,
the growing field of new religious movements, or nrms, necessarily requires
at least some consideration into scholarly methods and assumptions from an
international perspective.
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| Table of contents | “Blowing the Lid” or “Putting a Lid on a Stinking Pot”? 155
Similarities and Differences 157
Waco and Aum as “Turning Points” 162
Differing Positions on Waco and Aum 164
The Study of New Religions in Japan 167
Conclusion 171 |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Created date | 2013.04.16 |
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| Modified date | 2017.09.13 |
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