The new religious movement of Peoples Temple, begun in the 1950s, came to a dramatic end with the mass murders and suicides that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana,

This in-depth investigation of Peoples Temple and its tragic end at Jonestown corrects sensationalized misunderstandings of the group and places its individual

Twenty-five years after the tragedy at Jonestown, they assess the impact of the black religious experience on Peoples Temple.

Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples

This book corrects sensationalized misunderstandings of People's Temple in Jonestown and places its individual members within the broader context of religion in