Description
Book SynopsisThe Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978, when the children in Jonestown were put to death by adult members, most of whom then took their own lives. Little has been written about the Peoples Temple from the point of view of the black experience in America. This title addresses this gap in the scholarship on the Peoples Temple.
Trade Review"…Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America is an insightful, provocative and useful assemblage of essays, a vital contribution to the literature in its own right. One hopes that, in addition, the book will have the happy effect of generating still more scholarship and—not least of all—making way for the voices of more survivors, especially African Americans, to find their way into print." —The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Peoples Temple as Black Religion: Re-Imagining the Contours of Black Religious Studies Anthony B. Pinn
2. Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya
3. An Interpretation of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church Archie Smith, Jr.
4. Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of People Temple Rebecca Moore
5. Peoples Temple and Housing Politics in San Francisco Tanya M. Hollis
6. To Die for the Peoples Temple: Religion and Revolution after Black Power Duchess Harris and Adam John Waterman
7. Jim Jones and Black Worship Traditions Milmon Harrison
8. Breaking the Silence: Reflections of a Black Pastor J. Alfred Smith
9. America Was Not Hard to Find Muhammed Isaiah Kenyatta
10. The Church in Peoples Temple Mary R. Sawyer
Contributors
Index
