Salvation and suicide
Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
by David Chidester
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Book Description: 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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Salvation and suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
2003, Indiana University Press
in English
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0253343240 9780253343246
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Salvation and suicide: an interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
1991, Indiana University
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Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown (Religion in North America)
August 1991, Indiana Univ Pr
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Salvation and suicide: an interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
1988, Indiana University Press
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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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