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Jim Jones and Father Divine:
Emotional Frameworks of Worship

…Footage available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/hOv_hSJJ3vo. [13] ‘Pastor Jones Meets Rev M. J. Divine,’ pp. 9-10. [14] Father Divine, quoted in The Word of GOD Revealed: FATHER DIVINE’s Words from ‘The…

Housing God In Life And Death: Architecture and the final resting place in two radical movements

…Father Divine, see The Peace Mission Movement, by Mother Divine (New York: Anno Domini Father Divine Publications, 1982), 99. [14] On Father Divine’s crypt with pictures, see The Shrine To…

Farming Utopia: The Promised Lands of the Peace Mission and Peoples Temple

…examples” of their vision.[5] Father Divine Goes Farming Father Divine, whose birth name was George Baker Jr., was recruited from the Baptist Church around the beginning of the 20th century…

Divine Materiality: Peoples Temple and Messianic Theologies of Incarnation and Reincarnation

…on the manufactured reality of their respective divine lives and special powers.”[33] Jim Jones also drew on Father Divine’s blend of Christianity and New Thought philosophy. Father Divine’s followers referred…

All the World Rejoices in the Marriage Feast of the Lamb and the Bride

…by MOTHER DIVINE concerning HER conviction to the Marriage with the Lamb, GOD FATHER DIVINE. The remarks are dated April 28, 1959 and titled: ‘FATHER DIVINE’S Presence at all banquets.’…

The Reincarnations Of God:
George Baker Jr. and Jim Jones as Fathers Divine

…and especially Father Divine’s wife, Mother Divine, not Father Divine. Still, despite the differences in background, life experiences, and approaches to personal wealth, the two men shared an uncompromising concern about the health…

The Black Preacher From Indiana:
The Reverend Jim Jones and the Rise and Fall of Peoples Temple

…he too could create a utopian society such as Father Divine’s. The main teachings that Jones brought over from Father Divine was how Father Divine had created a community that…

The Three Virtual Intentional Communities Of God In A Body In Real Time (1868-2008)

…Father Divine. Father Jones reasoned that if black elderly Peninniah Divine could be reborn as a youthful, white Mother Sweet Angel Divine, then surely it was obvious by his life,…

“I’d Like To Thank Father”: The central role of positive thinking and thankful testifying during the ritual meal of the Peace Mission and the final night of Peoples Temple

…U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Weisbrot, Robert. Father Divine. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984. White, Mel. Deceived. Old Tappan, NJ: Spire Books, 1979. White, Ronald…

“If We Can’t Live in Peace, Then Let’s Die in Peace!”

…practices, and a focus on overcoming racial inequality (Moore, 2006, 58). Members called Jones “Father,” resonating with Divine’s title. Women made up the majority in both groups, ranging from three-fourths…

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