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modern political thought
contemporary issues in political thought
terrorism
people associated with terrorism
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conceptual issues in multicultural psychology
intergroup relations
terrorism
people associated with terrorism
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conceptual issues in multicultural psychology
intergroup relations
terrorism
people associated with terrorism
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political crimes
politically motivated violent crimes
terrorism
people associated with terrorism
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race, ethnicity and migration
sociopolitical movements and conflicts
terrorism
people associated with terrorism
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Shôkô Asahara
Definition
- Shôkô Asahara is the founder of the Japanese movement Aum Shinrikyô, responsible for the use of chemical weapons on the Tokyo subway in 1995. He is significant also as an example of a prophetic millennial religious leader whose visions gave rise to apocalyptic teachings and to mass violence committed by his disciples.Partially blind at birth, Asahara was sent to a boarding school for the blind while young, an alienating experience that influenced his later estrangement from his family. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Asahara, Shôkô (b. 1955)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Shôkô_Asahara
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