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Gone from the Promised Land

Jonestown in American Cultural History

by John R. Hall

A sociological history that places Peoples Temple within American traditions of communal, apocalyptic and racially reformist religion. Hall analyses the conflict between the Temple and its cultural opponents as a key factor in the final crisis.

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