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New Religious Movements

Salvation and Suicide

An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

by David Chidester

A religious studies interpretation that reconstructs the worldview of Peoples Temple from its sermons, tapes and documents. Chidester argues that the Temple must be understood as a religion with its own conceptions of salvation, death and redemption.

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