Description: Salvation and Suicide : An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, Paperback by Chidester, David, ISBN 025321632X, ISBN-13 9780253216328, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester’s pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar... promises of redemption through sacrifice."
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Book Title: Salvation and Suicide : An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peopl
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Salvation and Suicide : an Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: General, Cults
Item Height: 0.5 in
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: David Chidester
Subject Area: Religion
Series: Religion in North America Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
