LEADER 04826nam 22004813 450 001 9910896408603321 005 20240512090318.0 010 $a0-19-892646-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31325971 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31325971 035 $a(CKB)31993498100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1372507704 035 $a(Exl-AI)31325971 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931993498100041 100 $a20240512d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAum Shinrikyo and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cBritish Academy,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aBritish Academy Monographs 327 $aCover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- The scope of this book -- Organisation of the book -- 2 Towards a Multi-layered Account of Collective Memory -- Collective memory as uneven commemorative processes -- Cultural trauma: Negative events as cornerstones of collective identity -- Bakhtin's literary vocabulary: Dialogue, polyphony, and heteroglossia -- Conclusions: Three propositions for a multi-layered model of collective memory -- 3 The Prelude to Destruction: The 1994 Matsumoto Sarin Attack1 -- The making of 'Asahara Sh?k?' the guru -- Aum's doctrinal evolution -- Turn to militarism -- The immediate aftermath of the Matsumoto attack: The 'fact-finders' fail -- Conclusions -- 4 Shock and Anger: Societal Responses to the Tokyo Subway Attack -- Media responses to the Tokyo sarin attack -- Combating 'evil' -- The quest for ratings - uncovering Aum's inner workings -- Matsumoto re-signified -- Tracing the social causes of Aum -- Anomie -- Education -- Popular culture -- Transnational influences -- Religion under attack -- The making of a villain: Asahara the antagonist -- Distillation of evil -- Profanation -- Conclusions -- 5 Commemorating Crisis: State, Media, and Civil Responses to the Aum Affair -- State responses - Aum and the law -- Prevention of Destructive Activity Act (PDAA) -- Religious Corporations Act (RCA) -- Security laws -- Compensation for victims -- Criminal trials of perpetrators -- State responses - commemoration by official bodies -- Mediated commemoration -- Matsumoto re-remembered -- The Tokyo subway attack in mass media -- Beyond elite commemoration: Grassroots ritualised remembrance -- Erasing Aum's trails: The absence of material objects -- Conclusions. 327 $a6 Public Intellectuals and the Struggle Over Mind Control1 -- Public intellectuals and collective memory -- Authoritative intellectuals and the rise of mind control as paradigm -- Authoritative intellectuals questioning the mind control narrative -- Murakami Haruki's Underground -- Mori Tatsuya's A, A2, and A3 -- Conclusions -- 7 Performing Victimhood: Pursuing Justice After Tragedy -- Victimhood and trauma re-examined -- Towards a performative understanding of victimhood -- Nagaoka Hiroyuki: The 'difference-antagonistic' model -- Takahashi Shizue: The 'solidarity-antagonistic' model -- K?no Yoshiyuki: The 'solidarity-reconciliatory' model -- Conclusions -- 8 The Trauma of Perpetrators -- Recognising guilt - the view from 'below' -- The Canary Society -- Kaori's story -- Confessing guilt: Aum's killers -- Hayashi Ikuo -- Hayakawa Kiyohide -- Former leaders of Aum and Aleph: Combining apology and redress -- J?y? Fumihiro: Continuing a (non)religious group -- Noda Naruhito: Entrepreneurial reparations -- Intergenerational guilt and perpetrators' trauma -- Matsumoto Rika -- Matsumoto Satoka -- Conclusions -- 9 Conclusions -- The Aum Affair in Japanese culture -- Final remarks -- Appendix: Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyo's religious terrorism. Interrogating an array of primary sources including original interviews with victims and ex-members, this book reveals how clashing representations of the 'Aum Affair' have hindered social repair and reconciliation. 410 0$aBritish Academy Monographs 606 $aCollective memory$7Generated by AI 606 $aReligion and sociology$7Generated by AI 615 0$aCollective memory 615 0$aReligion and sociology 676 $a363.3250952135 700 $aUshiyama$b Rin$01768098 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910896408603321 996 $aAum Shinrikyo and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory$94216193 997 $aUNINA