Falun Gong: The End of Days
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Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong's beliefs, including their ideas on cosmology, humanity's origin, karma, reincarnation, UFOs and the coming apocalypse. She balances an account of the Chinese government's case against the sect with an evaluation of the credibility of those accusations. Describing China's long history of secret societies that initiated powerful uprisings and sometimes overthrew dynasties, she explains the Chinese government's brutal treatment of the sect. And she concludes with a chronicle of the ongoing persecution of religious groups in China - of which Falun Gong is only one of many - and the social conditions that breed the popular discontent and alienation that spawn religious millenarianism.
Author: Maria Hsia Chang
Format: Paperback, 208 pages, 136mm x 211mm, 223 g
Published: 2004, Scribe Publications, Australia
Genre: Current Affairs & Issues
Description
Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong's beliefs, including their ideas on cosmology, humanity's origin, karma, reincarnation, UFOs and the coming apocalypse. She balances an account of the Chinese government's case against the sect with an evaluation of the credibility of those accusations. Describing China's long history of secret societies that initiated powerful uprisings and sometimes overthrew dynasties, she explains the Chinese government's brutal treatment of the sect. And she concludes with a chronicle of the ongoing persecution of religious groups in China - of which Falun Gong is only one of many - and the social conditions that breed the popular discontent and alienation that spawn religious millenarianism.
Falun Gong: The End of Days