Living Aum: Austerities, Emotion, and the Feeling Community of Former Aum Shinrikyō Members

This article examines the experiences of female Aum Shinrikyō members who left the group after the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo, but who are unable to reject Aum and the lives they had lived inside it completely. Based on interviews and material published by Aum, the article discusses what it mean...

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Main Author: Baffelli, Erica 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press 2022
In: Nova religio
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 7-31
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Aum-Shinri-Kyo-Sekte / Women member / Exit / Spiritual life / Emotion / Community / Asceticism / Kasteiung
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Ascetic Practices
B Time
B feeling communities
B Emotions
B Aum Shinrikyō
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