How Do You Know When You're in a Cult?: The Continuing Influence of Peoples Temple and Jonestown in Contemporary Minority Religions and Popular Culture

This article examines representations of Peoples Temple in popular culture through the lens of mimesis, understood as a process of repetition and re-creation of specific elements. This process produces what is understood as a “cult” in popular culture, which is divorced from the complex historical r...

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Main Author: Crockford, Susannah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press [2018]
In: Nova religio
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-114
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Peoples Temple / Influence / Everyday culture / New religiosity
IxTheo Classification:AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B Peoples Temple
B minority religions
B Mimesis
B United States of America
B Popular Culture
B Cults
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