Salvation and suicide : Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Features a prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. This book recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society.
Print Book, English, cop. 2003
Rev. ed View all formats and editions
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, cop. 2003
XXVII, 190, [1] s. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780253216328, 9780253343246, 025321632X, 0253343240
1000029983
FOREWORD BY CATHERINE L. ALBANESE AND STEPHEN J. STEINPREFACEIntroduction: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and JonestownI. PERSPECTIVES ON AN EVENT1. Death and Rituals of Exclusion and Inclusion2. Cognitive Distancing3. Religiohistorical InterpretationII. THE CLASSIFICATION OF PERSONS1. Superhuman2. Subhuman3. HumanIII. ORIENTATION IN SPACE1. Cosmic Space2. Geographic Space3. Body SpaceIV. ORIENTATION IN TIME1. Cosmic Time2. Historical Time3. Body TimeV. SALVATION AND SUICIDE1. Religious Suicide2. White Nights3. The EndEpilogueNOTESINDEX