Rhetoric, Revolution and Resistance in Jonestown, Guyana

Initial reports of the deaths that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978 characterized them as mass suicides. As accounts of the deaths of children and old people emerged, however, the events began to be described as murder, especially by conspiracy theorists. But scholarship in New Religio...

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Main Author: Moore, Rebecca 1951- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2013
In: Journal of religion and violence
Year: 2013, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 303-321
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