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Anonymous asked:

got anything on that weird wave of suicide/doomsday cults japan had in the 90s?

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kontextmaschine:

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“New religions” have been big in Japan since the 19th century and especially WWII, fieldwork from there is the foundation of academic notions of how religion forms in the first place.

Conveniently, the Protestant evangelism of the South Pacific meant that the center of attention of religious studies was right there at the time.

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