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Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Rebecca Moore
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-11 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Twenty-five years after the tragedy at Jonestown, they assess the impact of the black religious experience on Peoples Temple.
Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Rebecca Moore
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-06 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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This in-depth investigation of Peoples Temple and its tragic end at Jonestown corrects sensationalized misunderstandings of the group and places its individual
Peoples Temple and Jonestown in the Twenty-First Century
Language: en
Pages: 158
Authors: Rebecca Moore
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The new religious movement of Peoples Temple, begun in the 1950s, came to a dramatic end with the mass murders and suicides that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana,
Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Rebecca Moore
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-11 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 men, women, and children died in a ritual of murder and suicide in their utopianist c
Gone from the Promised Land
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: John R. Hall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this superb cultural history, John R. Hall presents a reasoned analysis of the meaning of Jonestown--why it happened and how it is tied to our history as a n