Edith Roller Journals: May 1976
…who came to the Temple from the Peace Mission and I gave the Christians some details about the early Father Divine movement, Jim’s contact with them , the trips back…
…who came to the Temple from the Peace Mission and I gave the Christians some details about the early Father Divine movement, Jim’s contact with them , the trips back…
…down here![57] Jones had claimed to be a reincarnation of his childhood heroes, Jesus, Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine,[58] but in his later years, it abundantly clear that he thought…
…— you should— you shouldna covered the thing, and uh, just as I said to Valerie, she shouldna covered that thing with Father Divine. Somebody shoulda exposed him long ago,…
…just going to create more disharmony by your, your language, and so I would uh— I’d cool it. Man: (mike cuts in) Father, may I— Father, may I say— Jones:…
…counterfeits in circulation. (The followers of FATHER DIVINE destroy all counterfeit money they find in circulation, at their own expense, rather than pass it on to another.) FATHER said in…
…Press, 1979). On the importance of Father Divine and the Peace Mission on Jones, see C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya, “Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as…
…Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion” in Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America: “Like Father Divine, Jones urged his parishioners in Indianapolis to call him ‘Father’…
…the most significant cause of the Jonestown massacre. Influence of Father Divine Jones’ relationship with Father Divine was the beginning of the Temple’s articulation of an ideology. Weightman argues Jones’…
…and then repelled Father Divine from active cooperation with the political Communist cause.[iii] A careful analysis of Father Divine’s critique of Communism in the late 1940s and 1950s clearly demonstrates…
…and her Four Square Gospel Church; Father William Riker’s church of the Perfect Christian Divine Way; the Zebra Murders; the Symbionese Liberation Army; Synanon; the Free Speech Movement; est.[xi] McWilliams…