Catherine Wessinger is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate (2000), and the editor of Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases (2000) and The Oxford Handbook on Millennialism (2011). She is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. She may be reached at wessing@loyno.edu.
Last Questions for Jonestown (2013)
The Problem Is Totalism, Not “Cults”: Reflections on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Jonestown (2008)
Imagination and History: Tape Q875 and the Day after the Jonestown Mass Murders/Suicides (2005)
Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of Jonestown (2003)
1978 – Jonestown (2000)