By David Chidester
ISBN-10: 025321632X
ISBN-13: 9780253216328
ISBN-10: 0253343240
ISBN-13: 9780253343246
Praise for the 1st edition:
"[This] formidable and brave booklet [is a] benchmark of theology through which questions about the significant background of the Peoples Temple will be measured." ―Journal of the yankee Academy of Religion
Re-issued in popularity of the twenty fifth anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised version of David Chidester’s pathbreaking booklet encompasses a new prologue that considers the which means of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 international. For Chidester, Jonestown remembers the yankee non secular dedication to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones intended saving his fans from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is historic history," writes Chidester, however it does supply us with a chance "to mirror upon the strangeness of familiar... grants of redemption via sacrifice."
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