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Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America

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This book is edited by Dr. Rebecca Moore whose two sisters and nephew died in Jonestown on November 18, 1978; Anthony B. Pinn; and Mary R. Sawyer who all religious scholars. This book is not going to explain everything but it does link how the African American community (almost 80 percent of the People's Temple) relationship with Rev. James Warren Jones and his church through their beliefs. This book is not going to answer all your questions but it provides demographics and charts to explain the temple's population. This book really helps us humanize those who perished in Jonestown on November 18, 1978. This book has article written and researched by other religious scholars like Moore, Pinn, and Sawyer.
The title of the essays are "People's Temple as Black Religioin: Reimagining the Contours of Black Religious Studies" by Anthony B. Pinn; "Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion" by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya; "An Interpretation of People's Temple and JOnestown: Implications of a Black Church" by Archie Smith Jr.; "Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of People's Temple" by Dr. Rebecca Moore; "People's Temple and Housing Politics in San Francisco" by Tanya M. HOllis; "Jim Jones and Black Worship Traditions" by Milmon F. Harrison; "Breaking the Silence: Reflections of a Black Pastor" by J. Alfred Smith; "America Was Not Hard to Find" by Muhammed Isaiah Kenyatta; and "The Church in People's Temple" by Mary R. Sawyer. This book is critical in helping readers and researchers or people who are interested in the People's Temple; Rev. Jim Jones; and Jonestown on November 18, 1978.