A Study of the Aum Supreme Truth Phenomenon to Understand the Present-day Society

研究奥姆真理教现象了解当今社会

• 批准号: 08451053
• 负责人: ASHIDA Tetsro
• 金额: $ 2.3万
• 依托单位: Konan Women's University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1996 至 1998
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08451053/
• 关键词: the AUM cult; new new religion; affluent society; community; mass media; anxiety; カリスマ; 地域社会; 情報化; サブカルチャー; 終末観(論)

The purpose of our study is to grasp some traits of the present-day Japanese society and people by investigating the Aum Supreme Truth Phenomenon. By the Aum Supreme Truth Phenomenon we mean some particular phenomena which contain the Aum Supreme Truth cult's belief and practice, especially its brutally antisocial behavior such as the sarin attacks, and the much confused responses of common people to them.To attain our aim we collected a lot of informations from newspapers, journals, books and TV etc.. We also interviewed many persons who had been concerned with the cult at Tokyo, Kumamoto, Shizuoka, Yamanashi and so on. The data obtained through our researches are so enormous that we need a little more time to analyze them completely.This time, I think, we should be satisfied to have suggested that there are some obscure but deep-rooted anxieties spread in the contemporary society. We guess those anxieties are maybe shared with the cult In order to induce this hypothesis we examined the countermeasures of two communities, Kamikuishiki Village in Yamanashi Pref. and Namino Village in Kumamoto pref., which had coped with the Aum cult's activity.We have aspirations to continue the researches of this theme further. And we have intentions to clarify the total meanings of the Aum Supreme Truth Phenomenon in the present-day Japanese society before long.

我们研究的目的是通过调查奥姆真理教现象来了解当今日本社会和人民的一些特征。我们所说的“奥姆真理教现象”是指包含奥姆真理教信仰和实践的一些特殊现象，特别是其残酷的反社会行为，如沙林毒气袭击，以及普通民众对此的混乱反应。为了达到我们的目的，我们从报纸、期刊、书籍和电视等方面收集了大量信息。我们还采访了许多曾在东京、熊本、日本等地与该邪教有关的人士。 静冈、山梨等。我们的研究获得的数据如此庞大，以至于我们需要多一点时间来对其进行全面分析。我想，这一次我们应该满意地指出，当代社会中存在着一些隐晦却根深蒂固的焦虑。我们猜测这些焦虑可能是与邪教共同的。为了得出这个假设，我们研究了两个社区的对策，即山梨县的上九石村。以及应对奥姆真理教活动的熊本县波野村。我们有志于继续进一步研究这一主题。我们打算不久之后澄清奥姆真理教现象在当今日本社会的全部含义。