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Language: en
Pages: 544
Pages: 544
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
A portrait of the cult leader behind the Jonestown Massacre examines his personal life, from his extramarital affairs and drug use to his fraudulent faith heali
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic belief
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-16 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-25 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press
When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear. Most accounts of this mass su
Language: en
Pages: 179
Pages: 179
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-13 - Publisher: Lexington Books
Revisiting Jonestown covers three main topics: the psycho-biography of Jim Jones (the leader of the suicidal community) from the new perspective of Prenatal Psy