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Do not fill this in! == Media coverage == In ''Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism'', Brynjar Lia notes that "Doomsday cults are nothing new," but also states that they are "relatively few."<ref name="lia">{{cite book | last =Lia | first =Brynjar | title =Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions | publisher =Routledge | year =2005 | pages =165β169 | isbn = 071465261X}}</ref> In ''Mystics and Messiahs'', Jenkins writes that as a result of events between 1993 and 1997 including the [[Waco Siege]] involving the [[Branch Davidians]], violence involving the [[Order of the Solar Temple]], [[Aum Shinrikyo]]'s [[sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway]], and the [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]] incident, "Reporting on so-called doomsday cults became a mainstay of the media, just as satanic cults had been a decade before." Jenkins regards the Order of the Solar Temple as more of an example of [[organized crime]] than a doomsday cult.<ref name="jenkins" /> In ''Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld'', the authors also make a comparison to organized crime, writing that [[Aum Shinrikyo]] "...often resembled a profit-hungry racketeering gang more than a fanatic doomsday cult."<ref name="yakuza">{{cite book | last =Kaplan | first =David E. |author2=Alec Dubro | title =Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld | publisher =University of California Press | year =2003 | isbn = 0520215621 | page =208}}</ref> In [[James R. Lewis (scholar)|James R. Lewis]]' ''The Order of the Solar Temple'', he writes that the media made use of the term doomsday cult to characterize the movement, though former members and outsiders did not know what kind of event would occur.<ref>{{cite book | last =Lewis | first =James R. | author-link =James R. Lewis (scholar) | title =The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death | publisher =Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. | year =2006 | isbn = 0754652858 | page =96}}</ref> Some see the use of the term itself as a [[self-fulfilling prophecy]], where the characterization of being called a doomsday cult may actually affect the outcome of violent events related to the group. The ''Canadian Security Intelligence Service Report on Doomsday Religious Cults'' reported:<ref name="kaplan">{{cite book | last =Kaplan | first =Jeffrey | title =Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future | publisher =Routledge | year =2000 | pages =53β61, 114, 135, 228β229 | isbn = 0714652946}}</ref><ref name="canadianintelligence">"Doomsday Religious Movements", ''Perspectives'', a [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] publication, Report # 2000/03, December 18, 1999. [http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/pblctns/prspctvs/200003-eng.asp available online] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008080703/http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/pblctns/prspctvs/200003-eng.asp |date=October 8, 2008 }}, last updated November 1, 2000.</ref> <blockquote> Sanctions applied by authorities are often interpreted by a movement as hostile to its existence, which reinforces their apocalyptic beliefs and leads to further withdrawal, mobilization and deviant actions, and which in turn elicits heavier sanctions by authorities. This unleashes a spiral of amplification, as each action amplifies each action, and the use of violence is facilitated as the group believes this will ultimately actualize its doomsday scenario."<ref name="kaplan" /> </blockquote> [[Eileen Barker]] has compared these concepts to the notion of a deviancy amplification spiral in the media and its effects on [[new religious movement]]s, and James Richardson has also discussed this effect.<ref name="kaplan" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Barker |first=Eileen |author-link=Eileen Barker |title=Introducing New Religious Movements |work=London School of Economics and Political Science |publisher=Fathom: the source for online learning |year=2002 |url=http://www.fathom.com/feature/121938/ |access-date=2007-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014065725/http://www.fathom.com/feature/121938/ |archive-date=2007-10-14 }}</ref> In the case of the [[Concerned Christians]], use of the term "doomsday cult" as a characterization of the group served as a justification for deportation of its members by the [[Israel]]i government.<ref>{{cite book | last =Gorenberg | first =Gershom | title =The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount | publisher =[[Simon & Schuster]] | year =2000 | isbn = 0743216210 | page =217}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Sennott | first =Charles M. | title =The Body and the Blood | publisher =Public Affairs | year =2001 | isbn =1891620959 | page =[https://archive.org/details/bodyblood00senn/page/40 40] | url =https://archive.org/details/bodyblood00senn/page/40 }}</ref> In the book ''The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines'', author Loren L. Coleman discusses the effect the media can have on the seemingly innocuous intentions of a French doomsday cult.<ref name="coleman">{{cite book | last =Coleman | first =Loren L. | title =The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines | publisher =[[Simon & Schuster]] | year =2004 | pages =88β89|chapter= Cultic Copycats | isbn = 1416505547}}</ref> On September 5, 2002, Arnaud Mussy told his followers based in [[Nantes, France]] to look forward to voyagers from [[Venus]] who would collect them before the end of the world on October 24, 2002.<ref name="coleman" /> Though Mussy denied any plans for a [[mass suicide]], both police and the media drew parallels to the Order of the Solar Temple.<ref name="coleman" /> In ''Apocalypse Observed'', authors Hall, Schuyler and Trinh discuss the effect the media had on the events surrounding the Order of the Solar Temple group.<ref name="hall">{{cite book | last =Hall | first =John R. |author2=Philip Daniel Schuyler|author3=Sylvaine Trinh | title =Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and the State in North America, Europe and Japan | publisher =Routledge | year =2000 | isbn = 0415192773 | page =132}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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