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Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America

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ISBN-10: 0253216559

ISBN-13: 9780253216557

Edition: 2004

Authors: Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, Mary R. Sawyer

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Rebecca Moore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, has published widely on Peoples Temple and Jonestown and maintains a website on Peoples Temple. Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, and is the author of Varieties of African American Religious Experience. Mary R. Sawyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, and the author of Black Ecumenism: Implementing the Demands of Justice.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Peoples Temple as Black Religion: Re-imagining the Contours of Black Religious Studies
Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion
An Interpretation of Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church
Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of Peoples Temple
Peoples Temple and Housing Politics in San Francisco
To Die for the Peoples Temple: Religion and Revolution after Black Power
Jim Jones and Black Worship Traditions
Breaking the Silence: Reflections of a Black Pastor
America Was Not Hard to Find
The Church in Peoples Temple
Contributors
Index