People's Temple

By Sanford Groff

 

BOOKS

 

Primary Popular Books on The People’s Temple

 

Jones, Mother. Thoughts of Mother Jones: Compiled From Her Writings and Speeches.

     Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1971.

 

Krause, Charles A. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account. New York: Berkley,

     1978.

 

Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: a Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in

     the Peoples Temple. New York: Doubleday, 1998.

 

Secondary Scholarly Books on The People’s Temple

 

Alinin, S.F. and Antonov, B.G. and Itskov, A.N. The Jonestown Carnage - A CIA crime.   

     Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987.

 

Appel, Willa. Cults in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.

 

Beckford, James A. Cult Controversies. New York: Tavistock Publications,              

     1985.

 

Chidester, David. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples

     Temple, and Jonestown. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

 

Crimmins, John Hugh. The performance of the Department of State and the American

     Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana in the People's Temple Case. Washington, D.C.:

     Dept. of State, 1979.

 

Feinsod, Ethan. Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown, The Only Eyewitness Account. New

     York: Norton, 1981.

 

Hall, John R. Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.

     New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987.

 

Levi, Ken (editor). Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's

     People's Temple Movement. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press,

     1982.

 

Maaga, Mary McCormick. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse

     University Press, 1998.

 

McGehee, Fielding M. and Moore, Rebecca. The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown.

     Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1989.

 

McGehee, Fielding M. and Moore, Rebecca (editors). New Religious Movements, Mass

     Suicide, and Peoples Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy. Lewiston, NY: E.

     Mellen Press, 1989.

 

Meiers, Michael. Was Jonestown a CIA Experiment?: A Review of the Evidence.

     Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1988.

 

Melton, J. Gordon & Moore, Robert L., The Cult Experience. New York: The Pilgrim

     Press, 1982.

 

 

Melton, J. Gordon. Jim Jones, Charles Manson and The Process of Religious Group

     Disintegration. Evanston, Ill.: Institute for the Study of American Religion, 1979.

 

Miller, Timothy (editor). America's Alternative Religions. Albany, NY: State University of New

     York Press, 1995.

 

Moore, Rebecca. A Sympathetic History of Jonestown: the Moore Family Involvement in

     Peoples Temple. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985.

 

---. The Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family, 1970-1985. Lewiston, NY:

     Edwin Mellen Press, 1987.

 

Moore, Rebecca and McGehee, Fielding M. New Religious Movements, Mass suicide,

     and People's Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy. Lewiston, NY: Edwin

     Mellen, 1989.

 

Nesci, Domenico Arturo. The Lessons of Jonestown: an Ethnopsychoanalytic Study of

     Suicidal Communities. Roma: Società Editrice Universo, 1999.

 

Patil, Pawan Ganapati. Leadership and Followership Dynamics: Study of Two Socio-

     Religious Communal Experiments, Jim Jones's Jonestown and Bhagwan Rajneesh's

     Rajneeshpuram. Thesis (A.B., Honors in Social Studies) - Harvard University,

     1991.

 

Robbins, Thomas and Anthony, Dick. In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious

     Pluralism in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1981.

 

Rose, Stephen C. Jesus and Jim Jones. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1979.

 

Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago:

     University of Chicago Press, 1982.

 

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Death of

     Representative Leo J. Ryan, People's Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a

     Tragedy: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of

     Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, May 15, 1979. Washington:

     U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979.

 

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Staff Investigative

     Group. The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana,

     Tragedy: Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,

     U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print Office, 1979.

 

Weightman, Judith Mary. Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: a Sociological

     History of Peoples Temple. New York: E. Mellen Press, 1983.

 

Wessinger, Catherine. How the Millennium Comes Violently: from Jonestown to

     Heaven's Gate. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.

 

---. Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse

     University Press, 2000.

 

Wooden, Kenneth. The Children of Jonestown. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

 

Wright, Stuart A. Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian

     Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

 

Yee, Min S. and Layton, Thomas. In my father's house: the Story of the Layton Family

     and the Reverend Jim Jones. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981.

 

 

Secondary Popular Books on The People’s Temple

 

Ahlberg, Sture. Messianic Movements: A Comparative Analysis of the Sabbatians, the

     People's Temple and the Unification Church. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1986.

 

Bromley, David G. Falling from the Faith: Causes and Consequences of Religious

     Apostasy. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988.

 

---. The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of

     Religious Movements. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998.

 

Bromley, David G. & Shupe Jr., Anson D. Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare.

     Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1981.

 

Dieckmann, Ed. Beyond Jonestown: Sensitivity Training and the Cult of Mind Control.

     Torrance, CA: Noontide Press, 1981.

 

Endleman, Robert. Jonestown and the Manson Family: Race, Sexuality, and Collective

     Madness. New York: Psyche Press, 1993.

 

Harris, Wilson. Jonestown. Boston, MA: Faber and Faber, 1996.

 

Kahalas, Laurie Efrein. Snake dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown. Victoria,

     B.C.: Trafford, 1998.

 

Kerns, Phil. People's Temple, People's Tomb. Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1979.

 

Kilduff, Marshall. The Suicide Cult: The Inside Story of the Peoples Temple Sect and the

     Massacre in Guyana. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.

 

Klineman, George. The Cult that Died: the Tragedy of Jim Jones and the People's

     Temple. New York: Putnam, 1980.

 

Lane, Mark. The Strongest Poison. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1980.

 

Layton, Deborah. Seductive Poison: a Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in

     the People’s Temple. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

 

Mills, Jeannie. Six years with God: Life Inside Reverend Jim Jones's Peoples Temple.

     New York: A & W Publishers, 1979.

 

Parker, Pat. Jonestown & Other Madness: Poetry. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.

 

Reiterman, Tim. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People. New

     York: Dutton, 1982.

 

Reston, James. Our Father Who Art in Hell. New York: Times Books, 1981.

 

Sutherland, Fraser. Jonestown: A Poem. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996.

 

Thielmann, Bonnie. The Broken God. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, 1979.

 

Thrash, Catherine. The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana. Indianapolis,

     IN: M. Towne, 1995.

 

Thrash, Catherine and Towne, Marian Kleinsasser. The Onliest One Alive: Surviving

     Jonestown, Guyana. Indianapolis: Marian K. Towne, 1995.

 

Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. How the Millennium Comes Violently: from Jonestown

     to Heaven's Gate. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.

 

 

 

ARTICLES

 

Secondary Scholarly Articles on The People’s Temple

 

---. “Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and Jonestown.”

     Sociological Analysis 50 (1989): 191-192.

 

Barker, E. “Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple

     Movement.” Religion 14 (1984): 103-104.

 

Barker, Eileen. “Religous Movements: Cult and Anticult Since Jonestown,” Annual Review of

     Sociology 12 (1986): 329-346.

 

Bowden, Henry W. “Jonestown: The Enduring Questions.” Theology Today 36 (1979): 66-74.

 

Champion, Francoise. “Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: A Sociological History of

     Peoples Temple.” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 32 (1987): 348-349.

 

Chidester, David. “Rituals of exclusion and the Jonestown dead.” Journal of the American

     Academy of Religion 56 (1988): 681-702.

 

---. “Saving the Children by Killing Them: Redemptive Sacrifice in the Ideologies

     of Jim Jones and Ronald Reagan.” Religion and American Culture 1 (1991): 177-201.

 

---. “Stealing the Sacred Symbols: Biblical Interpretation in the People's Temple

     and the Unification Church.” Religion 18 (1988): 137-162.

 

Davis, Kortright. “A Sympathetic History of Jonestown.” Journal of Religious Thought 43

      (1986): 92-93.

 

Dowdy, T E. “Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown.” Journal for the Scientific Study

     of Religion 23 (1984): 97-98.

 

Erde, Edmund L. “Moral Philosophy and the Absurdity of Jonestown: A Study in the

     Democratization of Tragedy.” Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim

     Jones's People's Temple Movement. Ed. Ken Levi. University Park: Pennsylvania State

     University Press, 1982. 139-151.

 

Fitzmier, John R. “Becoming Proper Partners: The Religion in North America Series.” Religious

     Studies Review 16 (1990): 97-103.

 

Fogarty, Robert S. “From Zion to Jonestown and Beyond: Enclaves of Difference.” New

     Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding

     McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 93-111.

 

 

Gessner, J.C. “Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's     

     Temple Movement.” Sociological Analysis 45 (1984): 257-258.

 

Hall, John R. “Collective Welfare as Resource Mobilization in Peoples Temple: A Case Study of

     a Poor People's Religious Social Movement.” Sociological Analysis 49 (1988): 64-77.

 

---. “Jonestown and Bishop Hill: Continuities and Disjunctures in Religious Conflict.”

     New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 77-92.

 

---. “Peoples Temple.” America's Alternative Religions (1995): 303-311.

 

---. “Public Narratives and the Apocalyptic Sect: from Jonestown to Mt Carmel.”

     Armageddon in Waco (1995): 205-235.

 

---. “Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and

     Jonestown.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 57 (1989): 633-636.

 

---. “The Apocalypse at Jonestown.” In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious

     Pluralism in America Ed. Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ:

     Transaction Books, 1990. 269-293.

                   

---. “The Apocalypse at Jonestown.” In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious

     Pluralism in America. Ed. Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ:

     Transaction Books, 1981. 171-190.

 

---. “The Impact of Apostates on the Trajectory of Religious Movements: The Case of

     Peoples Temple.” Falling From the Faith (1988): 229-250.

 

Hall, John R and Schuyler, Philip D. “Apostasy, Apocalypse, and Religious Violence: an

     Exploratory Comparison of Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, and the Solar Temple.”

     The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of

     Religious Movements. Ed. David Bromley. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998.  141-

     169.

 

Hargrove, Barbara. “Jonestown and the Scientific Study of Religion.” New Religious

     Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee.

     Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 23-40.

 

Hartung, Beth. “New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide and People's Temple.” Sociological

     Analysis 51 (1990): 334-335.

 

Hatcher, Chris. “Cults, Society and Government.” New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide,

     and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin

     Mellen, 1989. 179-198.

 

Hauerwas, Stanley. “Self-sacrifice as Demonic: A Theological Response to Jonestown.”

     Violence and Religious Commitment (1982) 152-162.

 

Hochman, John. “The Jews of Jonestown.” Midstream 31 (1985): 10-13.

 

Jacobs, Janet L. “New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide and People's Temple.” Journal for

     the Scientific Study of Religion 29 (1990): 273-274.

 

Jodock, Darrell. “Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and

     Jonestown.” Dialog 29 (1990): 148-151.

 

Johnson, Doyle P. “Dilemmas of Charismatic Leadership: The Case of the People's Temple.”

     Sociological Analysis 40 (1979): 315-323.

 

Jones, Constance A. “Exemplary Dualism and Authoritarianism at Jonestown.” New Religious

     Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee.

     Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 209-230.

 

Kollar, N R. “Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple

     Movement.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 51 (1983): 502-503.

 

Kranenborg, Reender. “How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's

     Gate.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 11 (2001): 251-254.

 

Kroth, Jerry. “Recapitulating Jonestown.” Journal of Psychohistory 11 (1984): 383-393.

 

Lindt, Gilian. “Journeys to Jonestown: Accounts and Interpretations of the Rise and Demise of

     the People's Temple.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 37 (1981): 159-174.

 

Long, Theodore E and Hadden, Jeffrey K. “Sects, Cults and Religious Movements.” Sociological

     Analysis 40 (1979): 280-266.

 

Miller, Timothy. “Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.”

     Critical Review of Books in Religion (1990): 416-418.

 

Mills, Jeannie. “Jonestown Masada.” Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim

     Jones's People's Temple Movement. Ed. Ken Levi. University Park: Pennsylvania State

     University Press, 1982. 165-173.

 

Moore, John V. “Remembrance, Identification and Tragedy: Jonestown, The Mirror.” New

     Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding

     McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 231-241.

 

Moore, Rebecca. “"American as Cherry Pie": Peoples Temple and Violence in America.”

     Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Ed. Catherine Wessinger.

     Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. 121-137.

 

---. “Is the Canon on Jonestown Closed?” Nova-Religio 4 (2000): 7-27.

 

Penner, H. “Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown.” History of Religions 23 (1984):

     264-268.

 

Pescosolido, Bernice and Georgianna, Sharon, “Durkheim, Suicide, and Religion: Toward a

     Network Theory of Suicide.” American Sociological Review 54 (1989): 33-48.

 

 

Peters, Ted. “Shame and Violence.” Dialog 36 (1997): 254-294.

 

Phillips, Michael. “Jim Jones' Future in American Mythology.” New Religious Movements,

     Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee. Lewiston,

     NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 199-207.

 

Prozesky, Martin H. “Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple

     and Jonestown.” Journal for the Study of Religion 3 (1990): 72-76.

 

Quebedeaux, R. “Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown.” Christian Century 100

      (1983): 592.

 

Richardson, James T. “The Children of Jonestown.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

     21 (1982): 84-85.

 

---. “A Comparison Between Jonestown and Other Cults.” Violence and

     Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement. Ed. Ken

     Levi. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982. 21-56.

 

---. “People's Temple and Jonestown: A Corrective Comparison and Critique.”

     Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19 (1980): 239-255.

 

Richardson, James T and Bromley, David G. “Religion, Economics, and Society.” Sociological

     Analysis 49 (1988): 1-95.

 

Robbins, Thomas. “Hearing the Voices of Jonestown.” Journal for the Scientific Study of

     Religion 38 (1999): 317-318.

 

---. “How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate.”

     Nova Religio 4 (2000): 140-143.

 

---. “Reconsidering Jonestown.” Religious Studies Review 15 (1989): 32-37.

 

---. “Religious Mass Suicide Before Jonestown: The Russian Old Believers.”

     Sociological Analysis 47 (1986): 1-20.

 

---. “Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple

     and Jonestown.” Religious Studies Review 15 (1989): 32-37.

 

---. “The Historical Antecedents of Jonestown: The Sociology of Martyrdom.”

     New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and

     Fielding McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 51-76.

 

---. “The Second Wave of Jonestown Literature: A Review Essay.” New

     Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding

     McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 113-134.

 

Rose, Stephen C. “Jim Jones and Crisis Thought: A Critique of Established Religion.” New

     Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding

     McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 41-50.

 

Selengut, Charles. “Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: A Sociological History of Peoples

     Temple.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24 (1985): 457-458.

 

Shupe, Anson D and Bromley, David G. “Shaping the Public Response to Jonestown: People's

     Temple and the Anticult Movement.” Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of

     Jim Jones's People's Temple Movement. Ed. Ken Levi. University Park: Pennsylvania State

     University Press, 1982. 105-132.

 

Shupe, Anson and Bromley, David and Breschel, Edward. “The Peoples Temple, the Apocalypse

     at Jonestown, and the Anti-cult Movement.” New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and

     People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen,

     1989. 153-178.

 

Smillie, Benjamin G. “Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: A Sociological History of

     Peoples Temple.” Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 15 (1986): 126.

 

Smith, Archie. “An Interpretation of the Peoples' Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the

     Black Church.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 10 (1982): 1-13.

 

Snow, David A. “Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.”

     American Journal of Sociology. 95 (1990): 1101-1103.

 

Stack, Steven. “The Effect of Jonestown on Suicide Perception and Behavior.” New Religious

     Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee.

     Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 135-151.

 

Stipes, Gregory P. “Principles of Religious Cult Indoctrination.” Journal of Psychology and

     Christianity. 4 (1985): 64-72.

 

Waller, James. “Essays in Honor of James A Martin, Jr.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 37

      (1981): 1-178.

 

Weightman, Judith M. “The Peoples Temple as a Continuation and an Interruption of Religious

     Marginality in America.” New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple.

     Ed. Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1989. 5-21.

 

Wessinger, Catherine. “How the Millennium Comes Violently: A Comparison of Jonestown,

     Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidians, and the Montana Freemen.” Dialog 36 (1997): 277-288.

 

Wiebe, D, “Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown.” Anglican Theological Review 65 

      (1983): 367.

 

Wright, Stuart A. “Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.”

     Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 28 (1989) 92.

 

Zablocki, Benjamin D. “How the Millennium Comes Violently: from Jonestown to Heaven's

     Gate.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (2001): 547-548.

 

Ziegler, Karen. “More about Jonestown.” Christianity and Crisis: A Christian Journal of

     Opinion 39 (1979): 11-12.

 

Secondary Popular Articles on The People’s Temple

 

Ahlback, Tore. “Messianic Movements: A Comparative Analysis of the Sabbatians, the People's

     Temple and the Unification Church.” Temenos 24 (1988): 177-178.

 

Alexander, John F. “Insanity: is Jim Jones a Picture of Us All?.” Other Side 88 (1979): 10-12.

 

Angell, Stephen W. “Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple

     and Jonestown.” Christian Century June 1988: 581-582.

 

Anonymous. “Jesus and Jim Jones.” Christianity Today Aug. 1980: 35.

 

“Assets liquidated.” Christian Century Oct. 1981: 1050.

 

Baird, Keith E. “Jonestown: The Case isn't Closed,” Freedomways 1981: 186-193.

 

Burrow, Rufus. “The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana.” Encounter 57 (1996):

     88-90.

 

Chidester, David. “Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.”

     Religion 20 (1990): 89-92.

 

“Cult of death: People's Temple.” Newsweek Dec. 1978: 38-44.

 

Enroth, R M. “Jesus and Jim Jones.” Christian Century July 1980: 714-715.

 

Gardner, Christine J. “Remembering Jonestown: The Horror Lingers, yet the Number of

     Aberrant Groups Keeps Growing as People Seek Community.” Christianity Today Jan. 1999:

     31.

 

Hargrove, Barbara. “A Sympathetic History of Jonestown.” Iliff Review 43 (1986): 49-52.

 

Hull, R. “Jesus and Jim Jones.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 5 (1981): 181.

 

“Jim Jones: Man Who Would be "God".” Christianity Today Dec. 1978: 38-40.

 

“Jonestown Unleashes a Shower of Fallout.” Christianity Today Jan. 1979: 42.

 

Lincoln, Eric and Mamiya, Lawrence H. “Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political

     Religion.” Religion in Life 49 (1980): 6-23.

 

Macmillan, Thomas F. “Miracle, Mystery and Authority: Recalling Jonestown.” Christian

     Century Nov. 1988: 1014-1016.

 

Michaelson, Wes. “When People Feel Adrift.” Sojourners 8 (1979): 5-7.

 

Miller, Timothy. “Checking the Checklist” Christian Century Feb. 1980: 205-207.

 

Moment, Gairdner B. “From Utopia to Dystopia: the Jonestown Tragedy.” Utopias (1980): 215-

     228.

 

Moody, Howard. “Jonestown and Ourselves.” Christianity and Crisis: A Christian Journal of

     Opinion 38 (1979): 326-328.

 

Moore, John V. “How did Your Children Become Involved in People's Temple.” International

     Review of Mission 68 (1979): 65-68.

 

“Nightmare in Jonestown - Peoples Temple Cult.” Time Dec. 1978: 16-21.

 

Parker, Maynard “Web of Death: Inside the Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide.” Newsweek 7 Apr.

     1997: 28-49.

 

Rippin, Andrew. “Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown.” Religious Studies Bulletin 

     4 (1984): 73-79.

 

Rippin, Andrew. “Six of One, Half-dozen of Another: Essays in Comparative Religion.”

     Religious Studies Bulletin 4 (1984): 73-79.

 

Robbins, Thomas. “Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.”

     Religious Studies Review 15 (1989): 32-37.

 

Rudin, Marcia R. “Seductive Poison: a Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the

     Peoples Temple.” Cultic Studies Journal 16 (1999): 67-70.

 

Saliba, J.A. “Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones's People's Temple

     Movement.” Horizons 10 (1983): 410-411.

 

Soles, Henry. “Churchmen Hunt Clues on Cult's Lure for Blacks: Consultation on the

     Implications of Jonestown.” Christianity Today Mar. 1979: 54-56.

 

Stoen, Tim. “"The Most Horrible Night of My Life": An ex-Jonestown Believer on the Pull of

     Cults and How his 5-year-old Paid the Ultimate Price.” Newsweek 7 Apr. 1997: 44-45.

 

Stroup, Karen Leigh “The "Unacceptable Face" of Disciples History: The Mass Suicides at

     Jonestown, Guyana.” Discipliana 55 (1995): 14-24.

 

Touchet, F H. “Jesus and Jim Jones.” Journal of Psychology and Theology 8 (1980): 339-345.

 

Towne, Marian Kleinsasser. “From Hutterite Bruderhof to Jones' People's Temple: Two Visions

     of Community in America.” Encounter 48 (1987): 207-229.

 

Waters, Donald J. “Jungle Politics: Guyana, The People's Temple and the Affairs of the State.”

     Caribbean Review 9 (1980): 8-13.

 

Winter, Gibson. “Masada, Jonestown Provoke Reflection.” Witness 64 (1981) 14.

 

 

COMPUTER RESOURCES

 

 

Popular (Anti-People’s Temple) Primary Sources of People’s Temple (Website by ex-member)

Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown – A site created by Laurie E Kahalas, a survivor of Jonestown.  It has extensive information concerning the NRM.  It has been reviewed positively by some well know scholars.

http://www.jonestown.com

 

Popular (Anti- People’s Temple) Primary Sources of People’s Temple (About ex-member)

Drinking Poison: Inside Jonestown – A radio broadcast of an interview with a survivor. http://www.holysmoke.org/wicca/jjones.htm

 

Surviving the heart of darkness – A newspaper article recounting the surviving of an ex-member.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/13/PN93318.DTL

 

The Jonestown Memorial Project – Includes information about the memorial, the victims, and current events related to the massacre.

http://www.jones-town.org/

 

Popular (Anti- People’s Temple) Secondary Sources of People’s Temple (Non-Christian)

Jim Jones, Jonestown, and the People’s Temple – A site condemning the movement.  It includes information about the history and Jim Jones.  Also contains a theory involving the CIA.

http://hercules.gcsu.edu/~rviau/jimjones.html

 

Meta Religion: Jim Jones – A course site that gives a quick summary of the suicide.

http://www.meta-religion.com/New_religious_groups/Killer_issues/jim_jones.htm

 

Minister of Terror – A sparse article about the New Religious Movement.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/jonestown1.html

 

Is another Jonestown possible? – A comparison between People’s Temple and the Unification Church.

http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/u-10a.html

 

Popular Secondary Sources about the People’s Temple

The Ross Institute: Jonestown – An extensive site by the Ross Institute that surveys the events surrounding Jonestown, some survivor stories, and the societal implications for cults because of Jonestown.

http://www.rickross.com/groups/jonestown.html

 

Freedom of Mind: People’s Temple – Includes a summary of events and two question and answer periods with people versed on the incident.

http://www.freedomofmind.com/groups/temple/temple.htm

 

Jim Jones and the People’s Temple – Includes a history of Jim Jones, summary of events, statement of beliefs held, and a conclusion.

http://www.caic.org.au/biblebase/apocolyptic/jones.htm

 

20 Years Later: Jonestown Memorial – A small site with information on the twentieth anniversary of Jonestown.

http://www.factnet.org/cults/jonestown/20_years_later.html?FACTNet

 

The Jonestown Massacre: A tragedy made in San Francisco – A site detailing the interaction with Jim Jones and people from the San Francisco area.

http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/pics.html

 

Jonestown captivated S.F.’s liberal elite – A newspaper article about the impact of Jim Jones on a certain group in San Francisco.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/12/MN85578.DTL

 

Haunted by memories of hell – A newspaper article about the shooting at an airport in Guyana by members of the People’s Temple.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/12/MN82643.DTL

 

The end to innocent acceptance of cults – A newspaper article concerning the public opinion of New Religious Movements after Jonestown.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/13/MN29247.DTL

 

Most People’s Temple documents still sealed – A newspaper article about the documents of the People’s Temple.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/13/MN107219.DTL

 

On this day Mass Suicide leaves 900 dead – A thin article about the events of the day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2540000/2540209.stm

 

Jonestown Massacre +20 – A news article about the massacre at its 20th anniversary.

http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/

 

Crime Library: People’s Temple – A healthy summary of the events.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial4/jonestown/index.html

 

The Jonestown Massacre: CIA Mind Control Run Amok? – A conspiracy theory site with a summary and analysis of various theories about Jonestown.

http://www.conspire.com/jones.html

 

An Analysis of Jonestown – A detailed analysis of the incident.  Includes links to other information.

http://www.guyanaca.com/features/jonestown.html

 

Cult Education and Recovery: Jonestown – A summary of Jonestown.

http://www.culteducation.com/jonestown.html

 

Scholarly Secondary Sources on the People’s Temple (Religion Scholars)

New Religious Movements at UVA. – Undergraduate students at the University of Virginia compiled this site.  It includes a comprehensive summary with bibliography.

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/Jonestwn.html

 

Jonestown: Examining the People’s Temple – Site includes timeline, photos, history, and analysis of the suicide.  Compiled by students at Rice University's Religious Studies Department.

http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli291/Jonestown/Jonestown.html

 

Alternate Considerations of People’s Temple – An extensive site including a history, summary, list of those who died, and the death tape (a primary source).  Compiled by the University of North Dakota’s religion and philosophy department.

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoore/jonestown/contents.html

 

Religious Tolerance: Jonestown – Scholarly site giving extensive information and details on the People’s Temple. 

http://religioustolerance.org/dc_jones.htm