Jonestown and Peoples Temple served as the basis for
literally hundreds of books, articles, and movies. To identify some
of these items, go to the Resources
section of the site.
The articles below offer the perspectives of historians, journalists
and scholars of new religious movements and provide critical thinking
on what has been learned since the tragedy of 18 November 1978.
Dip your toe in the water of Jonestown, by Kimberly A. Adkins (2010)
The Peoples Temple’s Ideology in
a Comparative Perspective by Peter Åkerbäck (2007)
Thoughts by Roger Arjoon
Articles by Michael Bellefountaine
Articles by E. Black
Jonestown echoed in past times in Guyana, by Paul Bolcik (2010)
A Simple Song of Freedom?: Music in Peoples Temple, by John Brackett (2010)
Excerpt from “The Final Dance with Death”
by Jeff Brailey
Articles by David Conn
Picturing
Jonestown: Visual Media and the Social Constriction of Pictures, by Douglas
E. Cowan (2008)
Articles by Edward Cromarty
The Extremes Are Sometimes Closer: Peoples Temple, the Tea Party, and Anti-Governmentalism Then and Now, by Dereck Daschke (2010)
The Struggle Over a “Cult,” by Dave de Give (2009)
Articles by Josef Dieckman
Articles by Matthew Thomas Farrell
Articles by Craig Foreman 
The
Politics That Destroyed Jonestown, by Marvin Funk (2008)
Teaching “Jonestown”, by Eugene V. Gallagher (2010)
Articles by Phyllis
Abel Gardner, Ph.D.
Was Peoples Temple Religious?: Jonestown and Durkheim's Religious Typology, by R. Gillingham (2010)
Articles by Richard Gubbels
Articles by Michael Haag, Ph.D.
Articles by John R. Hall
Transformed! by Kim Harvey
(2006)
My Involvement with the Jonestown Entry
on Wikipedia by Robert P. Helms (2006)
“Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable”: Teaching Jonestown to a New Generation of Students, by Ted Henken (2010)
“Hell
that springs from the grave of memory”: Sacrifice, Whiteness, and Extinction in
Wilson Harris’ Jonestown, by Jonathan Highfield (2008)
Articles by Katherine Hill
Articles by Jim Hougan
Jonestown and Liberation Theology, by Massimo
Introvigne (2008)
Articles by Brian Kevin
Articles by Kristian Klippenstein
Articles by Christopher Knight-Griffin
Articles by James Knoll, MD
The
Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since
Jonestown?, by Janja Lalich, Ph.D. (2008)
Articles by Richard Lawrence
Articles by Timothy Lisagor
The Death of a Story, the
Death of a Cult: Pat Lynch and the Jonestown Tragedy, by Pat
Lynch (2009)
Three Groups in One, by Mary
McCormick Maaga
Articles by Gary Maynard
Attempting to Document the Peoples
Temple Story: The Existence and Disappearance of Government Records
by Fielding M. McGehee III
Guyanese Perspectives on Jonestown
by Dr. Khaleel Mohammed
Articles by Rebecca Moore
Thirty
Years Later: Thoughts About Prevention of Future Jonestowns, by Peter A.
Olsson, M.D. (2008)
Articles by Patrick O'Reilly, Ph.D.
Revolutionary Suicide: A Rhetorical Examination of Jim Jones' “Death Tape”, by Maggie Pehanick (2010)
Articles by Catherine Peschman
Jonestown Twenty-Five Years Later:
Why All the Secrecy? by James T. Richardson
Dispensing With The
“Conspiracy Theory” Label, by Bryan Sacks (2009)
Articles by Will Savive
Articles by Mary Sawyer
Articles by Heather Shearer
Articles by Archie Smith, Jr., Ph.D.
Articles by Roger Stacy
Articles by Karen Stroup, Ph.D.
Prophetic Charisma By Len Oakes - A Brief Overview, by Shawn Sutherland (2010)
Reframing
the frame: Peoples Temple and the Power of Words, by Alla Tovares (2008)
Articles by Paul VanDeCarr
Peoples Temple by Dr. John
Walliss
Jonestown
1978: A Forensic Pathologist’s Retrospective Observations, by Cyril H.
Wecht, M.D., J.D. (2008)
Articles by Catherine Wessinger
Articles and Commentary by Rikke Wettendorff
Revisiting
the Jonestown Tragedy, by Thomas G. Whittle and Jan Thorpe
(originally published in Freedom magazine, August 1997, by
The Church of Scientology International, reprinted by permission.)
Articles by James Williams, Central Committee, Rural People’s Party
Articles by Bonnie Yates
All in the Family, by Jeremy Young (2010)
Articles by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo
Student Papers
