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Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

By David Chidester

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
025321632X, 9780253216328
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
483 kB (494687 bytes)
Series
Religion in North America
Pages
224\0
Topic
History
Time added
2022-07-09 12:31:22

Description

Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." ―Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar . . . promises of redemption through sacrifice."

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