Word: saviorism
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...social life, and yet is delightfully sweet and beautiful. Peter is the handsome lawyer who appears to be Mr. Right, but turns out to be petty and callous. Jack is the sensitive, tough guy who really wants to be an artist and turns out to be Lucy's peasant-savior...
...though, the future "savior'' began to find his niche. He set up a yoga school that proved to be quite successful. Even if a former student recalls that in those days "we were not followers but members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment...
Asahara established his Aum Shinrikyo religion in 1987, and the movement even put up a number of candidates in the 1990 Lower House Diet elections; all of them lost. Not much later he began conferring on himself such titles as "Today's Christ" and "the Savior of This Century." His community branched out rapidly in Japan. Soon it had established some beachheads overseas--including the U.S. and Germany but notably Russia. Asahara once preached before a crowd of 15,000 in a Moscow sports stadium...
...parliament, in which he blamed the military for the heavy losses sustained in Chechnya. Still, his behavior remains erratic, the war continues, and some Russians are looking elsewhere for leadership. When one of Lebed's aides was told that in Moscow the general was spoken of as ``a possible savior of the motherland,'' the aide quickly countered, ``What do you mean, `possible'? It's a fact...
...will take an outsider to revive this troubled lot, and she arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia. The author has not realized Bette as thoughtfully as she has the other characters, and the reader never fully understands what it is about this girl that so deeply touches the Iris family. But angels are supposed to be a mysterious...