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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.
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.
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
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