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Aum Shinrikyô  

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  • Aum Shinrikyô is a millennial Japanese new religion that attained notoriety through its March 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway. It is significant because it manufactured and used chemical and biological weapons against civilian populations and because its violence was redolent with religious meanings and underpinned by doctrines and apocalyptic visions that made it view violence and killing as legitimate. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Aum Shinrikyô]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-FM30TWP7-B

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