Religion in North America
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Discusses Jim Jones' techniques, describes the world view of his followers, and offers a religious perspective on the mass suicide incident.
Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
by David Chidester
Published 1 January 1991
In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation - and the conflict behind the creation - of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, D.C., and they investigate visions of America as sacred space at home and abroad. Here are the beginnings of a new American religious history - told as the story of the contested spaces it has inhabited. The contributors are David Chidester, Matthew Glass, Edward T. Linenthal, Colleen McDannell, Robert S. Michaelsen, Rowland A. Sherrill, and Bron Taylor.