Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America

by Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, Mary R. Sawyer

The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 men, women, and children died in a ritual of murder and suicide in their utopianist community of Jonestown, Guyana. Only a handful lived to tell their story. As is well known, Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, was white, but most of his followers were black. Despite that, little has been written about Peoples Temple in the context of black religion in America. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253216559
• ISBN13: 9780253216557
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"