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

A study of the People's Temple written with compassion and understanding, with special focus on the surviving family members of two of the victims. This work se

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

In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic belief