Q162 Summary

…apparently at one of the Peace Missions of his former mentor, the late Father Divine. The sermon has many elements of a typical Jones address: He tries to shock the…

Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

…government agent. What I do believe is that, until 1970, Jim Jones was a government informant, working against black religious organizations such as Father Divine’s. (The evidence for this is…

The Demographics of Jonestown

…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…

Jonestown 25 Years Later: Why All The Secrecy?

…describe the uniqueness of Peoples Temple, which was more similar to urban black churches such as that of Father Divine or Sweet Daddy Grace than it was the controversial NRMs…

Sex in Peoples Temple

…in our time. Upon request I would be happy to post individual chapters of the book, including “Words and Expressions Copied from Father Divine and Daddy Grace,” “Society as a…

And The Truth Shall Set You Free?

…thought was happening because “The means justify the end”? How often did you hear Jim lie about something and rationalize it away as being something the dear people from Father