{"id":18193,"date":"2013-04-15T01:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=18190"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:59:00","slug":"resources_reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=18193","title":{"rendered":"Scholarly Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the books and articles listed here, many of the scholars noted have items that appear on the Jonestown website.\u00a0Books and articles that take a psychological approach are listed separately <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=18191\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<li>\n<div>Ahlberg, Sture.\u00a0<em>Messianic Movements: A Comparative Analysis of the Sabbatians, the People\u2019s Temple and the Unification Church<\/em>. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1986.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Anthony, Dick and Thomas Robbins.\u00a0&#8220;Religious\u00a0Totalism, Exemplary Dualism, and the Waco Tragedy.&#8221;\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer.\u00a0New York:\u00a0Routledge, 1994.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Barker, Eileen. <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2083206.pdf\">\u201cReligious Movements: Cult and Anticult Since Jonestown.\u201d<\/a> <em>Annual Review of Sociology<\/em> 12 (1986): 329-346.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Bromley, David G. and Anson D.\u00a0Shupe,\u00a0Jr..\u00a0<em>Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare<\/em>. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chesebro, James and David McMahan. \u201cMedia Construction of Mass Murder-Suicides as Drama:\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0Symbolic Construction of Mass Murder-Suicides.\u201d\u00a0<em>Communication Quarterly<\/em>\u00a054, no. 4 (2006): 407-25.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Chidester, David.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chidester-1988.pdf\">&#8220;Rituals of Exclusion and the Jonestown Dead.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<em>\u00a0Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/em>\u00a056, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 681-702.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><em>Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown<\/em>.\u00a0Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1988. Revised ed. titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Salvation-and-Suicide.pdf\"><i>Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple and Jonestown<\/i><\/a>, 2003.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/chidester.pdf\">&#8220;Saving the Children by Killing Them: Redemptive Sacrifice in the Ideologies of Jim Jones and Ronald Reagan.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<em>Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation<\/em>\u00a01, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 177-201.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Crist, R. E. <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3486571.pdf\">\u201cJungle Geopolitics in Guyana: How a Communist Utopia That Ended in Massacre Came to be Sited.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>American Journal of Economics and Sociology<\/em>\u00a040 (1981): 107-14.<\/li>\n<li>Dube, Bekithemba, Milton Molebatsi Nkoane and Dipane Hlalele, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/26489075.pdf\">&#8220;The Ambivalence of Freedom of Religion, and Unearthing the Unlearnt lessons of Religious Freedom from the Jonestown Incident: A Decolonoiality Approach,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Journal for the Study of Religion<\/em>, ASRSA, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2017), 330-349.<\/li>\n<li>Green, Ernest, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/green-review.pdf\">&#8220;Jonestown,&#8221;<\/a> a review of five books, <em>Utopian Studies<\/em>, Penn State University Press, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1993), 162-165.<\/li>\n<li>Greenberg, Joel, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3964487.pdf\">&#8220;Jim Jones: The Deadly Hypnotist,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Science News<\/em>, Society for Science &amp; the Public, Vol. 116, No. 22, (Dec. 1, 1979), 378-379+382.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16544\">Hall, John R.<\/a> &#8220;The Apocalypse at Jonestown.&#8221; In\u00a0<em>In\u00a0Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony.\u00a0New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books, 1981, pp. 171-190.\u00a0Reprinted from\u00a0<em>Transaction\/Society<\/em>\u00a016, no. 6 (September\/October 1979): 52-61.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3711144.pdf\">\u201cCollective Welfare as Resource Mobilization in Peoples Temple: A Case Study of a Poor People\u2019s Religious Social Movement.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>Sociological Analysis\u00a0<\/em>49, Supplement (December 1988): 645-775.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><em>Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History<\/em>.\u00a0New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books, 1987; Reprinted\u00a02004.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Impact of Apostates on the Trajectories of Religious Movements: The Case of Peoples Temple.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Falling From the Faith: The Causes, Course, and Consequences of Religious Apostasy<\/em>. Ed. David G. Bromley. Beverley Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1988, pp. 229-50.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJonestown in the 21st Century.\u201d\u00a0<em>Transaction\/Society<\/em>\u00a041, no. 2 (January\/February 2004): 9-11.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Peoples Temple.&#8221;\u00a0In\u00a0<em>America&#8217;s Alternative Religions<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Timothy Miller.\u00a0Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1995, pp. 303-311.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>&#8220;Public Narratives and the Apocalyptic Sect: From Jonestown to Mt. Carmel.&#8221;\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch\u00a0Davidian\u00a0Conflict<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Stuart A. Wright.\u00a0Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 205-235.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hall, John R. and Philip Schuyler.\u00a0&#8220;Apostasy, Apocalypse, and Religious Violence: An Exploratory Comparison of Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, and the Solar Temple.&#8221; In\u00a0<em>The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements<\/em>. Edited by David G. Bromley.\u00a0Westport, Conn.:\u00a0Praeger, 1998, pp. 141-69.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Hall, John R. with Philip D. Schuyler and\u00a0Sylvaine\u00a0Trinh.<em>\u00a0Apocalpyse\u00a0Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan<\/em>. New York:\u00a0Routledge, 2000.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Harding, Vincent. \u201cMy Lord, What a Mourning: Jonestown is America.\u201d In\u00a0<em>The Other American Revolution<\/em>, by Vincent Harding. Atlanta: Institute of the Black World, 1980.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Hauerwas, Stanley. \u201cOn Taking Religion Seriously: The Challenge of Jonestown.\u201d In <em>Against the Nations: War and Survival in a Liberal Society<\/em>, 91\u2013103. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Henrickson, Embert J., <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Hendrickson-1979.pdf\">&#8220;In Pursuit of the Co-operative Republic: Guyana in the 1970s,&#8221;<\/a> <em>The World Today<\/em>, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 5 (May 1979), 214-222.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=82945\">Introvigne,\u00a0Massimo<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ideecheuccidono.pdf\"><i>Idee che uccidono. Jonestown, Waco, il Tempio Solare.<\/i><\/a>. Milan:\u00a0Pessano\u00a0MIMEP-Docete, 1995.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Johnson, Doyle Paul. <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3709960.pdf\">\u201cDilemmas of Charismatic Leadership: The Case of The Peoples Temple.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>Sociological Analysis<\/em>\u00a040 (1979): 315-23.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kent, Stephen A. \u201cHouse of Judah, the Northeast Kingdom Community, and the Jonestown Problem: Downplaying Child Physical Abuses and Ignoring Serious Evidence.\u201d<em>\u00a0International Journal of Cultic Studies<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 1 (2010): pp. 27-48.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16533\">Klippenstein, Kristian D.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99153\">&#8220;Jones on Jesus: Who Is the Messiah?&#8221;<\/a> <em>International Journal of Cultic Studies 6<\/em> (2015): 34-47.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Language Appropriation and Identity Construction in New Religious Movements: Peoples Temple as Test Case.&#8221; <em>Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/em> 85, no. 2 (June 2017): 348-380.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Spiritual Siblings: The Function of New Religions in Peoples Temple Doctrines.&#8221; <em>Nova Religio<\/em> 22, no. 2 (2018): 40-64.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWatching Movies in Jonestown: A Cultural Interlocutor Approach to Visual Media and New Religions.\u201d <em>Journal of Religion and Popular Culture<\/em> 34, no.1: 53\u201372.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kutulas, Judy, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kutulas-2017.pdf\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Drink the Kool-Aid: The Jonestown Tragedy, the Press, and New American Sensibility,&#8221;<\/a> <em>After Aquarius Dawned: How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies<\/em>, The University of North Carolina Press (2017), 167-198.<\/li>\n<li>Levi, Kenneth, ed.\u00a0<em>Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones\u2019 People\u2019s Temple Movement<\/em>. University Park, Penn.: Penn State Press, 1982.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Lewis, Gordon K.\u00a0&#8220;Gather with the Saints at the River:&#8221; <em>The Jonestown Guyana Holocaust 1978<\/em>. R\u00edo Piedras, Puerto Rico:\u00a0Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1979.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H.\u00a0Mamiya.\u00a0&#8220;Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Religious Life<\/em>\u00a049 (1980): 6-23.\u00a0Reprinted in Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16556\">Mary R. Sawyer<\/a>, eds.\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Peoples-Temple-and-Black-Religion.pdf\">Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2004, pp. 28-46.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Lindt, Gillian.\u00a0 &#8220;Journeys to Jonestown: Accounts and Interpretations of the Rise and Demise of People&#8217;s Temple.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<em>Union Seminary Quarterly Review<\/em>\u00a037, nos. 1 &amp; 2 (Fall-Winter 1981-1982): 159-174.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16596\">Maaga, Mary McCormick<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99124\"><em>Hearing the Voices of Jonestown<\/em><\/a>. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998.\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c\u2018No One Commits Suicide\u2019: The Need for a Sociology of Knowledge for the Women of Peoples Temple.\u201d Paper given at the Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 6-8 November, 1992, Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>McCabe, Michael, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/27660725.pdf\">&#8220;Moral Evil and the Jonestown Tragedy,&#8221;<\/a> <em>The Furrow<\/em>, Vol. 30, No. 4 (April 1979), 219-225.<\/li>\n<li>McCloud, Sean. \u201cFrom Exotics to Brainwashers: Portraying New Religions in Mass Media.\u201d\u00a0<em>Religion Compass<\/em>\u00a01, no. 1 (2007): 214-28.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Melton, J. Gordon.\u00a0<em>Peoples Temple and Jim Jones: Broadening Our Perspective<\/em>. New York: Garland, 1990.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a name=\"moore\"><\/a>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16580\">Moore, Rebecca<\/a>.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sympathetic-History-of-Jonestown.pdf\"><em>A Sympathetic History of Jonestown: The Moore Family Involvement in the Peoples Temple<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin\u00a0Mellen\u00a0Press, 1985. (Sample chapters appear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16580\">on this site<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/canon-2000.pdf\">&#8220;Is the Canon on Jonestown Closed?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<em>Nova\u00a0Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions<\/em>\u00a04, no. 1 (October 2000): 7-27. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=65582\">available on this site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;American as Cherry Pie:&#8217; Peoples Temple and Violence in America.&#8221;\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Catherine\u00a0Wessinger.\u00a0Syracuse N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 121-137.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16581\">Available on this site.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeoples Temple.\u201d Article in\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements<\/em>. Ed. Richard Landes. New York and London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 305-8.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown.\u201d <em>Journal of Popular Culture<\/em>\u00a036, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 200-20. Reprinted in\u00a0<em>Controversial New Religions<\/em>. Ed. James Lewis, 61-78. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2005. <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16582\">Available on this site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeoples Temple.\u201d Article in\u00a0<em>The 21st Century Encyclopedia of the World Religions<\/em>. Ed. J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2002.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2003-nr-koolaid.pdf\">&#8220;Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Cultural Transformation of a Tragedy.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<em>Nova\u00a0Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions<\/em>\u00a07, no. 2 (November 2003): 92-100.\u00a0Also <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16584\">available on this site.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Demographic Study of Black Involvement in Peoples Temple: What the Numbers Say.\u201d In Moore, Pinn, and Sawyer, 57-80.\u00a0[A 2017 revision of this article, titled \u201cAn Update on the Demographics of Jonestown,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70495\">available on this site<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJim Jones.\u201d Article in\u00a0<em>The Encyclopedia of African American Folklore<\/em>. Ed. Anand Prahlad. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJim Jones.\u201d Article in\u00a0<em>The Encyclopedia of Religion<\/em>, 2d edition. Ed. Lindsay Jones. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeoples Temple: A Typical Cult?\u201d In\u00a0<em>Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America<\/em>, Vol. 2. Ed. Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft. Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 2006, pp. 113-34.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2006-nr-revisited.pdf\">\u201cPeoples Temple Revisited: A Review Essay.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>Nova\u00a0Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions<\/em>\u00a010, no. 1 (August 2006): 111-18.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/JT-in-Literature-2009.pdf\">\u201cJonestown in Literature: Caribbean Reflections on a Tragedy.\u201d<\/a><em>\u00a0Literature and Theology<\/em>\u00a023, no. 1 (March 2009): 1-15.<\/li>\n<li><em>Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple<\/em>. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009; paperback revision 2018. Reviews in <em>the jonestown report<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30904\">Rikke Wettendorff<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30814\">Matthew Thomas Farrell<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeoples Temple.\u201d Article in\u00a0<em>Religions of the World Religions<\/em>, 2d ed.,\u00a0<em>A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices<\/em>, ed. J. Gordon Melton. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNarratives of Persecution, Suffering, and Martyrdom: Violence in Peoples Temple and Jonestown.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Violence and New Religious Movements<\/em>. Ed. James R. Lewis, pp. 95-111. New York: Oxford\u00a0 University Press, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Stigmatized Deaths in Jonestown: Finding a Locus for Grief.\u201d\u00a0<em>Death Studies<\/em>, 35, no. 1 (2011): 42-58. <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=64762\">Available on this site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=89512\">&#8220;Jonestown and the Study of NRMs: How Survivors and Artists are Reshaping the Narrative of Jonestown.\u201d<\/a> In <em>The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements<\/em>. Ed. George D. Chryssides and Benjamin E. Zeller, 73\u201388. London: Continuum, 2013.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Rhetoric2013.pdf\">\u201cRhetoric, Revolution and Resistance in Jonestown, Guyana,\u201d<\/a> <em>Journal of Religion and Violence<\/em>, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2013), 303-321. Also in <em>Sacred Suicide<\/em>. Ed. James R. Lewis and Carole M. Cusack, 73\u201390. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Controversies about Peoples Temple and Jonestown.\u201d In <em>Controversial New Religions<\/em>, 2d ed., rev. and exp. Ed. James Lewis and Jesper A. Petersen, 53\u201366. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMythopoesis, Digital Democracy, and the Legacy of the Jonestown Website.\u201d In <em>Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age<\/em>. Ed. Christopher M. Moreman and A. David Lewis, 143\u201358. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Jonestown to 9\/11 and Beyond: Mapping the Contours of Violence and New Religious Movements.\u201d In <em>The Oxford Handbook on New Religions<\/em>. Ed. James R. Lewis and Inga B. T\u00f8llefsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2018-Godwins-Law.pdf\">\u201cGodwin\u2019s Law and Jones\u2019s Corollary: The Problem of Using Extremes to Make Predictions.\u201d<\/a> <em>Nova\u00a0Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions<\/em> 22, no. 3 (November 2018).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJonestown, Forty Years On.\u201d <em>Nova\u00a0Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions<\/em> 22, no. 3 (November 2018).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99186\">The Erasure (and Re-inscription) of African Americans from the Jonestown Narrative<\/a>, <em>Communal Societies<\/em>, Communal Studies Association (Vol. 38, Issue 2, December 2018) (PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The_Erasure_and_Reinscription.pdf\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown.\u201d In <em>The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy<\/em>, ed. Hugh B. Urban and Paul Christopher Johnson, Routledge (2018).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=110476\">\u201cA Monumental Problem: Memorializing the Jonestown Dead.\u201d<\/a> In <em>Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying<\/em>, ed. Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki, pp. 187\u2013208, Berghahn Press, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cApocalyptic Groups and Charisma of the Cadre.\u201d In <em>The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma<\/em>, ed. Jos\u00e9 Pedro Z\u00fcqete, pp. 277\u2013287. New York: Routledge, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Moore, Rebecca and <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=52694\">Fielding M.\u00a0McGehee, III<\/a>,\u00a0eds.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-Need-for-a-Second-Look-at-Jonestown.pdf\"><em>The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin\u00a0Mellen\u00a0Press, 1989.<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\">(<strong>Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong>: This book includes an article by Gary Scarff, who had presented himself falsely as a former member of Peoples Temple. An article about the subterfuge \u2013 and Mr. Scarff\u2019s apology for misleading the editors \u2013 appears <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=32378\">here<\/a>.)<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>eds.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/REM-NRM-Mass-Suicide.pdf\"><em>New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy<\/em><\/a>. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin\u00a0Mellen\u00a0Press, 1989.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Moore, Rebecca, Anthony B.\u00a0Pinn, and Mary R. Sawyer, eds.\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Peoples-Temple-and-Black-Religion.pdf\">Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2004.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Poster, Alexander.\u00a0&#8220;Jonestown: An International Story of Diplomacy, D\u00e9tente, and Neglect, 1973\u20131978.&#8221; <em>Diplomatic History<\/em> 43, No. 2 (April 2019), 305\u2013331.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Pozzi, Enrico.\u00a0<em>Il Carisma malato. Il People\u2019s Temple e il suicidio collettive di Jonestown<\/em>. Naples: Liguori, 1992.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Richardson, James. <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1385862.pdf\">&#8220;Peoples Temple and Jonestown: A Corrective Comparison and Critique.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<em>Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion<\/em>\u00a019, no. 3 (1980): 239-255.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Robbins, Thomas.\u00a0&#8220;Reconsidering Jonestown.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Religious Studies Review<\/em>\u00a015, no. 1 (January 1989): 32-37. (This article was expanded into &#8220;The Second Wave of Jonestown Literature,&#8221; noted below.)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Robbins-1986.pdf\">\u201cReligious Mass Suicide Before Jonestown: The Russian Old Believers.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>Sociological Analysis<\/em>\u00a047, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 1-20.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/robbins-second-wave-jt-lit.pdf\">&#8220;The Second Wave of Jonestown Literature: A Review Essay.&#8221;<\/a> In\u00a0<em>New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and Peoples Temple: Scholarly Perspectives on a Tragedy<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Rebecca Moore and Fielding M.\u00a0McGehee, III.\u00a0Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin\u00a0Mellen\u00a0Press, 1989, pp 113-134.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Robbins, Thomas and Dick Anthony.\u00a0&#8220;Sects and Violence: Factors Enhancing the Volatility of Marginal Religious Movements.&#8221; In\u00a0<em>Armageddon at Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch\u00a0Davidian\u00a0Conflict<\/em>.\u00a0Edited by Stuart A. Wright.\u00a0Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 236-59.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Sidky, Homayun.\u00a0&#8220;Chapter 16: Religion and Violence.&#8221; In\u00a0<em>Religion: An Anthropological Perspective<\/em>.\u00a0New York: Peter Lang, 2015, pp. 225-241.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Simon, Louis, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/40986098.pdf\">&#8220;Writing, Reading and Altered Consciousness in <em>Jonestown<\/em>,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Journal of Caribbean Literatures<\/em>, Vol. 2, No. 1\/2\/3 (Spring 2000), 207-214.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16558\">Smith, Archie Jr.<\/a> &#8220;An Interpretation of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church.&#8221;\u00a0<em>PSR Bulletin<\/em> Occasional Paper\u00a058, no. 2 (February 1980). Reprinted in Moore, Pinn, and Sawyer, 47-56.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><em>The Relational Self: Ethics and Therapy from a Black Church Perspective<\/em>. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1982. (The last chapter discusses Peoples Temple.)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Smith, Jonathan Z.\u00a0<em>Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. (Chapter 7, pp. 102 &#8211; 120, <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Smith-Devil-in-Mr-Jones.pdf\">&#8220;The Devil in Mr. Jones&#8221;<\/a>.)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31396\">Smith, Karin A.\u00a0<\/a>\u201cA Taxonomy of Jonestown.\u201d M.A. Thesis. San Francisco and Oakland: California College of the Arts, 2007.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33005\">Stephenson,\u00a0Denice.<\/a>\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dearpeoplerememberingjonestown.pdf\">Dear People: Remembering Jonestown<\/a><\/i>. San Francisco and Berkeley: California Historical Society and Heyday Books, 2005. A review in the April 14, 2005 edition of the <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> appears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/article\/Silenced-voices-of-Jonestown-speak-in-new-book-2641687.php\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Taylor, Moe, \u201cOne Hand Can\u2019t Clap: Guyana and North Korea, 1974\u20131985,\u201d <em>Journal of Cold War Studies<\/em> 17, no. 1 (2015): 54 (for the links between Guyana, North Korea, and Jonestown).<\/li>\n<li>Thompson, R.L., Manders, M.W., and Cowan, W.R., <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/08-JT-Postmortems.pdf\">\u201cPostmortem Findings of the Victims of the Jonestown Tragedy\u201d<\/a>, <em>Journal of Forensic Sciences<\/em>, JFSCA, Vol. 32, No. 2 (March 1987), 433-443.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Weightman, Judith.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/makingsenseofjonestownsuicides.pdf\"><i>Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: A Sociological History of Peoples Temple<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin\u00a0Mellen\u00a0Press, 1983.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16598\">Wessinger, Catherine<\/a>.\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/How_the_Millennium_Comes_Violently_From.pdf\">How the Millennium Comes Violently<\/a><\/em>. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>&#8220;1978-Jonestown,&#8221; a\u00a0chapter from\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/How_the_Millennium_Comes_Violently_From.pdf\">How the Millennium Comes Violently<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/How_the_Millennium-\u2013-Chapter-3.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16601\">Text<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=16602\">&#8220;How the Millennium Comes\u00a0Violently,&#8221;<\/a> a\u00a0chapter from\u00a0<em>How the Millennium Comes Violently<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow the Millennium Comes Violently: A Comparison of Jonestown, Aum Shinrikyo, Branch Davidians, and the Montana Freemen.\u201d\u00a0<em>Dialog<\/em>\u00a036, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 277-88.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":18183,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":129,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133810,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18193\/revisions\/133810"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}