Bulletin > Volume 21 Reactions to the Aum Affair: The Rise of the "Anti-Cult" Movement in Japan

Watanabe Manabu

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The following essay is based on a paper presented at the annual meeting of American Academy of Religion held in New Orleans on November 25, 1996. The occasion was a joint session of groups studying Japanese religions tmd new religious movements under the general theme, “The Aum Shinrikyō Affair: Its Implications and Repercussions for Religion in Modern Society.”