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From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group
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Miyamoto, Tomoka. - : University of Alberta. Department of East Asian Studies., 2014
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Degree: Master of Arts ; Abstract: Aum Shinrikyo, a religious sect generally seen as a karuto or “cult” in Japanese society, carried out sarin gas attacks in 1995. Today, a successor group called Aleph has successfully recruited numerous converts, despite the negative profile of Aum in the Japanese media. This study seeks to understand this phenomenon. It first investigates Japanese public representations of new religious movements. Then, it examines discourses presented by Aleph on its official website and studies its recruitment strategies, paying attention to its use of symbols and images. It finds that Aleph highlights certain cultural themes that have meaning and value to many Japanese people, which contrasts with the hostile public depictions of Aum and other such groups. In particular, I argue that Aleph’s use of symbols and images plays a significant role in the recent, rapid increase of new converts because the symbols and images rehabilitate its reputation in the Japanese public. ; Specialization: Japanese Language and Linguistics
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cults; Japanese culture; Japanese religion
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URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/7s75dc94v
http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.37905
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Knowledge of syntax and verbal morphology in adolescent L2 English: A Feature Reassembly account
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Conceptos de la Lingüística Cognitiva relevantes para la descripción de aspectos contrastivos entre la gramática japonesa y la española
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Creating a New Literature: Shimazaki Toson's Poetry and the Japanese Literary Reform Movement
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In: Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts (2014)
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Speech Sample Measures in Japanese Children and Adults Who Stutter
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In: Our House Articles, Posters, and Presentations (2014)
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Revisiting Manner/Result Complementarity: with evidence from Japanese and Chinese verb compounds
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In: Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 89-100 (2014) (2014)
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Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited
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In: Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2014) (2014)
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Corpus-based collocation research targeted at Japanese language learners
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In: Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 25-36 (2014) (2014)
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Desuga ですが and the Spread of Voicing Feature in L2 Japanese
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In: Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 9-20 (2014) (2014)
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The learner as lexicographer: using monolingual and bilingual corpora to deepen vocabulary knowledge
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In: Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2014) (2014)
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Rethinking metalinguistic labels: spatio-temporal metalinguistic terms in learners’ dictionaries of Japanese expressions
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In: Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2014) (2014)
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Explore the Research Topics in Researching the Great Rear Area of the Anti-Japanese War in China
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In: Cross-Cultural Communication; Vol 10, No 6 (2014): Cross-Cultural Communication; 217-224 ; 1923-6700 ; 1712-8358 (2014)
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Mona Lisa , A Deer , That Man , and The Night of an Artificial Satellite by Murano Shirō
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In: Transference (2014)
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The History of Australian Haiku and the Emergence of a Local Accent
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Vowel Epenthesis and Consonant Deletion in Japanese Loanwords from English
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2014)
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Unifying Phonotactics and Derived Environment Blocking through Prosodic Constraint Indexation
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2014)
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Prototypical Predicates Have Unmarked Phonology
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2014)
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