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Item Details
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SALVATION AND SUICIDE
JIM JONES, THE PEOPLES TEMPLE, AND JONESTOWN |
| By: |
David Chidester, Reinhardt Grossman |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£33.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253313244 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253313249 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2004 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Series: |
Religion in North America |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
A study of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. It features a prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. |
| Synopsis: |
Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's path-breaking 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." David Chidester is Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town and author or editor of 20 books, including "American Sacred Space" (IUP, 1995), edited with Edward T. Linenthal, and "Christianity: A Global History". |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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