The Campaign for the New Jonestown Memorial:
A Brief History
…often. • A number of elderly black women had also come to the Temple via Father Divine’s Peace Mission movement, and were known by the names they had adopted there….
…often. • A number of elderly black women had also come to the Temple via Father Divine’s Peace Mission movement, and were known by the names they had adopted there….
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…Father Divine. Could he have contacted the Peace Mission, learned that they were real pissed JJ, and had the info phoned to JJ, knowing some of the members were licensed…
…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…
…Temple in 1973, not 1977; Father Divine is transmogrified into the Prophet Zeke and lives in Indianapolis, not Philadelphia; and there never was an Ida Lassiter. I welcome these new…