Search Results for: Father Divine

…will have the knowledge – and from it, the power – to resist its call. “Someone should have told what they knew years ago…” Jim Jones, of Father Divine’s ministry,…

…organization after that of Father Divine in which white women had top leadership roles. Their veneration of Jim blinded them to his responsibilities for choosing and supporting his subordinates, just…

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…1970, Jim Jones was a government informant, working against black religious organizations such as Father Divine’s. (The evidence for this is laid out in the article I wrote for Lobster….

…some kind of utopian goddamn scheme, that this is kind of what heaven on earth will be, or Father Divine shit, I’m not talkin’ about that, I preach a scientific…

…“Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion;” and Archie Smith, Jr.’s “An Interpretation of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church.” The book will…

…few known instances of people changing their names – and cloaking their identities – to avoid legal difficulties or to escape abusive relationships. In addition, several women from Father Divine’s…

…(2022) On Normalising the Study of Peoples Temple (2022) A Status Check – and a Clarion Call – for Jonestown Researchers, a review (2022) Jim Jones and Father Divine: Emotional…

…a more unmediated and more direct participation with the events of the past. I first discovered this when teaching using a sermon delivered by Jones in Philadelphia at Father Divine’s…

…and Lawrence H. Mamiya, “Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion,” in Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America, 28-46. Maaga critiques the deprivation theory as an…