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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."
Contents
FOREWORD BY CATHERINE L. ALBANESE AND STEPHEN J. STEIN
PREFACE
Introduction: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
I. PERSPECTIVES ON AN EVENT
1. Death and Rituals of Exclusion and Inclusion
2. Cognitive Distancing
3. Religiohistorical Interpretation
II. THE CLASSIFICATION OF PERSONS
1. Superhuman
2. Subhuman
3. Human
III. ORIENTATION IN SPACE
1. Cosmic Space
2. Geographic Space
3. Body Space
IV. ORIENTATION IN TIME
1. Cosmic Time
2. Historical Time
3. Body Time
V. SALVATION AND SUICIDE
1. Religious Suicide
2. White Nights
3. The End
Epilogue
NOTES
INDEX