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…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…

…“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…

…examples of Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, Jews under Moses, and even the migration of Puritans, Quakers and others to settle in the North America. “[A]ll underscore the way in which…

…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…

…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….

…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…

…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,…

…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…

…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…

…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…