Salvation And Suicide: An Interpretation Of Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, And Jonestown

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Praise for the first edition:"This ambitious and courageous book is benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of ReligionRe-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester’s pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world

• Salvation And Suicide: An Interpretation Of Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, And Jonestown available on June 01 2016 from VitalSource for itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">17.99
  
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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."

^ Salvation And Suicide: An Interpretation Of Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, And Jonestown VitalSource. ISBN 9780253112743 (revised Jun 2016)