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Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America

By Anthony B. Pinn , Rebecca Moore , Mary R. Sawyer

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780253110831, 9780253343710, 0253343712, 0253216559, 9780253216557
Open Library ID
OL17116024M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1353298 bytes)
Pages
224\225
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 community of Jonestown, Guyana. Only a handful lived to tell their story. As is well known, Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, was white, but most of his followers were black. Despite that, little has been written about Peoples Temple in the context of black religion in America. In 10 essays, writers from various disciplines address this gap in the scholarship. Twenty-five years after the tragedy at Jonestown, they assess the impact of the black religious experience on Peoples Temple.

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