Articles
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.
Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Collection of Articles
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)
Articles by Antony Arcusa (2014)
A Proposal to Restore Jonestown, by Roger Arjoon (2004)
Remembering Frank Bell, by Marianne Bachers (2016)
Articles by Michael Bellefountaine
A Reckoning: Five Examinations of Tim Carter’s Essay, by Taylor Black (2017)
Looking for Answers from an 1840s Mass Suicide in Guyana, by Paul Bolcik (2010)
Jeff Brailey’s Articles and Manuscript
From Norway to Guyana: A Writer’s Journey, by Pernille Borud (2012)
The Cult of Two: Understanding Jonestown, by Loren-Paul Caplin (2015)
Sex, Gender and Female Empowerment: Recovering a Positive Perspective on Jonestown, by Caroline Capute (2012)
Picturing Jonestown: Visual Media and the Social Constriction of Pictures, by Douglas E. Cowan (2008)
Articles and Remembrances by Brad Crowell
Thinking Critically about Jonestown, by Kamilah Cummings (2014)
The Extremes Are Sometimes Closer: Peoples Temple, the Tea Party, and Anti-Governmentalism Then and Now, by Dereck Daschke (2010)
The Effects of Segregation and Racism in 20th Century America On the Growth of Peoples Temple, by Kellen Datta (2014)
The Struggle Over a “Cult,” by Dave de Give (2009)
Articles and Reviews by Jason Dikes
Sigmund Freud’s Approach to Intergroup Relations Applied to Peoples Temple, by Shailee Dyssell-Pillay (2015)
Followership, Sacrificial Leadership and Charisma, Dissertation of Wendy M. Edmonds (2013)
eBay’s Handling of Jonestown CD Reveals Inconsistent Policing Policies, by Brad Elliott (2004)
Articles by Matthew Thomas Farrell
Laura Johnston Kohl and the Politics of Peoples Temple, by Joseph L. Flatley (2017)
A Usable Past and a Usable Future: Research Must Not Forget the Survivor Community, by Holly Folk (2013)
The “Other” Jim Jones: Rabbi David Hill, House of Israel, and Black American Religion in the Age of Peoples Temple, by Nishani Frazier (2012)
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)
The Town of Jones, by John Gimlette (2015)
Articles and Spanish Translations by Luis Ángel González Rocha & Others
Masses of Mass Suicide, by Erica Guthrie (2017)
Articles by Michael Haag, Ph.D.
Transformed! by Kim Harvey (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)
A Piece of Driftwood and the High Seas: Speculations on the Mind of a Madman, by E. Alex Howe (2012)
Jonestown and Liberation Theology, by Massimo Introvigne (2008)
Is There Such a Thing as People Hoarding?, by Carl Kelsch (2013)
Exploring ambivalence in Peoples Temple (2011)Articles by Kristian Klippenstein
Articles by Christopher Knight-Griffin
Jim Jones’ news broadcasts in 1978: Red Army Faction & the two Germanys, by Heidi König-Porstner (2017)
Appendix: The RAF in Jim Jones’ Jonestown news broadcasts (2017)Jonestown as Continuum, by Eusi Kwayana (2017)
The Violent Outcomes of Ideological Extremism: What Have We Learned Since Jonestown?, by Janja Lalich, Ph.D. (2008)
Coerced Suicide: The Jonestown Deaths, Suicide Bombings, and Beyond, by Adam Lankford, Ph.D. (2012)
The Death of Christopher O’Neal, by Elizabeth Larson (2016)
The Strange Case of Franklin Jones, by Scott Lowe (1996)
The Death of a Story, the Death of a Cult: Pat Lynch and the Jonestown Tragedy, by Pat Lynch (2009)
Story of Media Involvement in Jonestown Seeks Publication (2007)Three Groups in One, by Mary McCormick Maaga
Selected Articles and Editorials by Fielding M. McGehee III
Articles by Dr. Khaleel Mohammed
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)
Peoples Temple to Be Re-Established, by Rev. Cupid Osburn (2017)
Hook, line and Kool-Aid, by John Pierce (2012)
Jonestown Twenty-Five Years Later: Why All the Secrecy? by James T. Richardson (2003)
Jonestown: A Caribbean/Guyanese Perspective, a Speech by Walter Rodney (2016)
‘How Did This Happen, and How Did I Not See It Coming?’, by Justin Rohrlich (2015)
Dispensing With The “Conspiracy Theory” Label, by Bryan Sacks (2009)
The Fine Line between Jim Jones and Colin Powell, by Cheryl Ann Seminara, Ph.D. (2012)
35 years after Jonestown – two survivors speak out, by Audhild Skoglund (2014)
The Jonestown Death Tape: A Membership Categorisation Analysis, by Della-Rachel Smith (2014)
Articles by Archie Smith, Jr., Ph.D.
Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid, by Todd Strandberg (2015)
A Hope in the Seen: Leo Ryan’s Victory at Jonestown Resounds Today, by Mark Stricherz (2017)
Articles by Karen Stroup, Ph.D.
“Never Heard A Man Speak Like This Before”: Reverend Jim Jones And Peoples Temple, by Emerson Maureen Stuckart (2014)
Drinking in Images, by ieva swanson (2013)
Carlton B. Goodlett: Champion of the People?, by James Lance Taylor (2012)
Bring Out The “Black Dimensions” Of Peoples Temple, by James Lance Taylor (2011)Reframing the frame: Peoples Temple and the Power of Words, by Alla Tovares (2008)
Defined by the Father: A discourse analytical case study of the last speech of Jim Jones, by Anssi Viljanen (2013)
The Modus Operandi of Modern Religious Movements, by Rebecca-Jayne Virgen (2012)
Peoples Temple by Dr. John Walliss
From Cuttlefish to Cults: Can Biology Explain Jonestown?, by John C. Wathey (2013)
Jonestown 1978: A Forensic Pathologist’s Retrospective Observations, by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D. (2008)
As Seen On TV: The Science Of Brainwashing, Big And Small, by Chris Weller (2016)
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
From monkey salesman to charismatic preacher, by Dr. Richard Wiseman (2014)
All in the Family, by Jeremy Young (2010)
Articles by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo
The Inspiration of the Jonestown Express, by Isaac Zukin (2014)
