By Maria Hsia Chang
ISBN-10: 0300102275
ISBN-13: 9780300102277
ISBN-10: 0300133170
ISBN-13: 9780300133172
The realm first took detect of a spiritual workforce referred to as Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, whilst greater than 10,000 of its fans protested prior to the chinese language Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates occasions within the wake of the demonstration: Beijing's condemnation of the crowd as a Western, anti-Chinese strength and doomsday cult, the sect's persevered defiance, and the national crusade that ended in the incarceration and torture of many Falun Gong devoted. Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong's ideals, together with their principles on cosmology, humanity's foundation, karma, reincarnation, UFOs, and the arrival apocalypse. She balances an account of the chinese language government's case opposed to the sect with an evaluate of the credibility of these accusations. Describing China's lengthy background of mystery societies that initiated strong uprisings and occasionally overthrew dynasties, she explains the chinese language government's brutal therapy of the sect. and he or she concludes with a chronicle of the continuing persecution of non secular teams in China, of which Falun Gong is just one of many, and the social stipulations that breed the preferred discontent and alienation that spawn non secular millenarianism.
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By April ≤≠≠≤, nearly three years since the banning of the sect, Falun Gong’s headquarters in New York claimed that more than ≥∑≠ of its faithful had died in custody or from o≈cial persecution. Independent human rights groups, including the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy (ICHRD), put the toll at over ∞∑∏. The sect also claimed that about ∞≠≠,≠≠≠ people had been arrested or jailed: Among them were at least ∑≠≠ practitioners who were jailed, some ∞,≠≠≠ confined to mental hospitals, and ≤≠,≠≠≠ sent to labor camps without trial.
When a society with such a heritage finds itself in the throes of massive social dislocation, its populace is inclined to understand and to seek remedy for its distress with the language of religious messianism. People anticipate that the end days are imminent, a time when a savior will appear to sweep away the corruption of the extant society. If a charismatic leader then emerges to articulate popular disa√ection and sound the clarion call for social revitalization—all in the nomenclature of religious messianism—the third and final condition for the instigation of a millenarian movement will have been met.
On June ∞∞, ≤≠≠∞, Beijing implemented yet more new guidelines aimed at the sect. China’s top court issued a directive citing specific laws that could be used by police, prosecutors, and judges to punish Falun Gong followers. For example, defamation or libel laws could be deployed against those who ‘‘attack President Jiang Zemin in their propaganda material or spray-paint names of police o≈cers’’ who allegedly tortured sect adherents. ∂Ω On June ∞≠, ≤≠≠∞, a new legal directive ‘‘on the punishment of diehard Falun Gong cult members’’ was jointly issued by the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
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