The Downfall of Rajneeshpuram in the Print Media: A Cross-National Study

Belzen, J.A. van; Driel, Barend van

doi:10.2307/1387031

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“…It will be interesting to see whether such changes in opinion among religion writers will lead to more negative coverage of this group in the future. Our earlier content analysis of American print media coverage of NRMs (van Driel and Richardson, 1988a) Belzen, 1990) revealed a similar finding. Findings from the first study also showed that a lack of sympathy developed among some journalists towards organized opponents of NRMs.…”

Section: Initial Findings Of the Us Survey Point To Parallels Betwesupporting

confidence: 55%

Journalists' Attitudes toward New Religious Movements

Richardson¹,

Driel²,

Silk³

et al. 1997

Review of Religious Research

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Section: Initial Findings Of the Us Survey Point To Parallels Betwesupporting

confidence: 55%

Journalists' Attitudes toward New Religious Movements

Richardson¹,

Driel²,

Silk³

et al. 1997

Review of Religious Research

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“…They also heard that the Rajneesh, as they called him, might be preparing for "another Jonestown". (Gordon 1987:120) The anticult framing was adopted by electronic and print media perpetuating considerable negative coverage (Latkin 1992:266;Van Driel and van Belzen 1990). Latkin conducted a state-wide survey on the public attitudes toward the Rajneeshees between the summer of 1985 and spring of 1986.…”

Section: Organized Opponents and Escalation Of Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As they prepared for the disincorporation election, the townspeople became more combative. They condemned the Rajneeshees to news reporters and media outlets that in turn relayed the most disparaging comments and stories to the public (van Driel and van Belzin 1990). The escalating tensions triggered a cry for aid from the U.S. Community Relations Service (CRS).…”

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confidence: 99%

Re‐Examining Collective Religious Violence at Rajneeshpuram: A Cultural Opposition Model Analysis

Wright

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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The research literature on collective religious violence with regard to new or nontraditional religious movements (NRMs) has revealed an engaging set of arguments about the relative importance of internal versus external factors. While internal or group‐bounded factors are certainly significant, external factors and conditions are sometimes overlooked or at least not fully appreciated. This article synthesizes several models of collective religious violence highlighting external factors into a single “cultural opposition” model to reexamine the Rajneesh movement case in Oregon in the 1980s. I contend that key external incidents, particularly the bombing of the Rajneesh hotel by outsiders, serve as pivotal turning point for the dramatic advent of an armed encampment. The study then offers evidence to support the proposition that exogenous conditions of intense cultural opposition can transform the nonviolent beliefs and practices of a peaceful religious community into the endogenous conditions that Robbins identifies as “necessary” to heighten the likelihood of collective religious violence.

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“…More recently, Marion Goldman (1999) outlined the post-Osho diaspora of sannyasins (committed disciples) and the decentralization of Oshorelated organizations internationally. However, the lack of studies about the current stage of the Osho movement suggests that, although influenced by the media blitz of the mid-1980s, researchers have mistakenly "assumed that the most interesting phase of the movement is over" (Palmer & Sharma, 1993, p. 162; see also Van Driel & Van Belzen, 1990).…”

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Osho International Meditation Resort (Pune, 2000s): An Anthropological Analysis of Sannyasin Therapies and The Rajneesh Legacy

D’Andrea¹

2007

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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This article examines a multinational community of meditators and therapists, now called the Osho International Meditation Resort. Based on 6 months of ethnographic fieldwork at this resort located in Pune, India, the article focuses on cathartic therapies and active meditations, analyzed as practices of self-formation affected by relations of power and ideology. The article provides new data about the institutional and ideological contexts that currently inform sannyasin practices, revealing how the organization paradoxically promotes and controls expressive behavior. The study introduces the notion of "psychic deterritorialization" as a way to conceptualize processes of catharsis and self-derailment verified among Western sannyasins and travelers. Moreover, it examines orientalist claims about the Indian self and culture that tend to obstruct Indian nationals from participating in therapy workshops. The efficacy of expressive therapies, as exemplified by the Osho resort, depends on historically shaped tenets of "repression/expression" that forge the Western subject.

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The Downfall of Rajneeshpuram in the Print Media: A Cross-National Study

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Journalists' Attitudes toward New Religious Movements

Journalists' Attitudes toward New Religious Movements

Re‐Examining Collective Religious Violence at Rajneeshpuram: A Cultural Opposition Model Analysis

Osho International Meditation Resort (Pune, 2000s): An Anthropological Analysis of Sannyasin Therapies and The Rajneesh Legacy

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