The following are books and articles about Jonestown which have been published within the last few years or will be published soon.<\/p>\n
A book which includes a chapter on Jonestown and a comparative look at Peoples Temple in the context of other apocalyptic religious conflict comes from John R. Hall with Philip D. Schuyler and Sylvaine Trinh, Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan<\/b> (London: Routledge, 2000).<\/p>\n
Another comparative study comes from Catherine Wessinger, titled How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/a><\/b> (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 1999).<\/p>\n Mary Maaga’s Hearing the Voices of Jonestown<\/i><\/a><\/b> (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998) looks at the role of women in Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n From Italy see, Enrico Pozzi, Il carisma malato. Il People\u2019s Temple e il suicidio collettivo di Jonestown<\/b> (Naples: Liguori, 1992), and Massimo Introvigne, Idee che uccidono. Jonestown, Waco, il Tempio Solare<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a> (Milan: Pessano MIMEP-Docete, 1995).<\/p>\n Laurie Efrein Kahalas, a former member of Peoples Temple, published Snake Dance: Unraveling the Mysteries of Jonestown<\/b> in 1998 (available through amazon.com). The book provides an insider\u2019s autobiographical view and makes the case for a “far right wing conspiracy” against Peoples Temple. Kahalas is currently developing On the Record: The Book of Documents<\/b>, which provides several hundred quotations from an array of internal documents, including public records and news reports as well as information from Peoples Temple files. She is also writing a spiritual diary of the events at Jonestown titled And the Angels Wept<\/b>. Kahalas manages the website http:\/\/www.jonestown.com<\/a> , now archived on this site.<\/p>\n An interesting article appears in Lobster 37 by Jim Hougan, Jonestown: The Secret Life of Jim Jones. A Parapolitical Fugue<\/b> (Summer 1999). Lobster is a progressive British publication focusing on right-wing terrorism and spying; edited and published by Robin Ramsay at 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull, HU5 3JB, UK; e-mail robin@lobster.karoo.co.uk<\/a>. Hougan\u2019s e-mail address is jimhougan@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two letters written by Annie Moore, who died in Jonestown, appear in Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999<\/b>, edited by Lisa Brunwald and Stephen J. Adler (Dial Press, 1999). One of the letters was written either during or after the deaths in Jonestown.<\/p>\n For an apostate view, see Deborah Layton\u2019s Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor\u2019s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple<\/b> (New York: Doubleday, 1998).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following are books and articles about Jonestown which have been published within the last few years or will be published soon. A book which includes a chapter on Jonestown and a comparative look at Peoples Temple in the context of other apocalyptic religious conflict comes from John R. Hall with Philip D. Schuyler and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":22834,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22831","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=22831"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121377,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22831\/revisions\/121377"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}