Articles by Rebecca Moore
 
 

Rebecca Moore


Rebecca Moore is a professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. She has written and published extensively on Peoples Temple and Jonestown (listed here), including her most recent book Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple (Praeger, 2009), and an extensive summary on the Temple appears at the World Religions & Spirituality Project at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also the co-manager of this website.

Annie: An Enigma (2012) NEW

Address at May 29, 2011 Jonestown Memorial Dedication Service (2011)

History Comes Alive: Jonestown in the Classroom (2010)

Carolyn’s Other Letters (2009)

The Sacred and the Profane in Wilson Harris' Jonestown (2008)

Survivors Speak Thirty Years Later (2008)

The Sacrament of Suicide (2006)

Garrett Scott - An Appreciation (2006)

Katrina and Jonestown (2005)

The Strange Case of Garry Scarff (2005)

Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Cultural Transformation of a Tragedy (2002)

Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown (2002)

Comments on "Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown" by Rebecca Moore by Ken McCarthy

A Response to Ken McCarthy's Comments by Rebecca Moore

“American as Cherry Pie” (2000)

“Last Rights” (1988)

A Sympathetic History of Jonestown (1985) (selected chapters)
            Chapter 11: “The Vise”
            Chapter 12: “Last To Die”
            Chapter 13: “Closing the Books”
            Chapter 14: “Residual Suspicion”
            Excerpts from Chapter 16: “McGehee v. CIA”

Rebecca Moore also edited two collections of letters from her two sisters who died in Jonestown. “Letters from Annie Moore”  and “Letters from Carolyn Moore Layton” appear in the Primary Sources section of the site.

 



 
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Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple
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