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

Description: Salvation and Suicide : An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, Paperback by Chidester, David, ISBN 025321632X, ISBN-13 9780253216328, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-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. 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."

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Book Title: Salvation and Suicide : An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peopl

Number of Pages: 224 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Salvation and Suicide : an Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Publication Year: 2003

Subject: General, Cults

Item Height: 0.5 in

Features: Revised

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.2 Oz

Item Length: 9.1 in

Author: David Chidester

Subject Area: Religion

Series: Religion in North America Ser.

Item Width: 6.4 in

Format: Trade Paperback