Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
David Chidester. Indiana University Press, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-253-20690-9
Chidester uses theology to interpret the November 1978 mass murder-suicide of some 900 Jim Jones followers in Guyana, concluding that the Peoples Temple was a meaningful religious movement. (Sept.)no pw review.
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Reviewed on: 07/29/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
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