Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America

Rebecca Moore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, has published widely on Peoples Temple and Jonestown and maintains a website on Peoples Temple. Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, and is the author of Varieties of African American Religious Experience. Mary R. Sawyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, and the author of Black Ecumenism: Implementing the Demands of Justice.

"Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America is an insightful, provocative and useful assemblage of essays, a vital contribution to the literature in its own right. One hopes that, in addition, the book will have the happy effect of generating still more scholarship and—not least of all—making way for the voices of more survivors, especially African Americans, to find their way into print."—The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Peoples Temple as Black Religion: Re-Imagining the Contours of Black Religious Studies Anthony B. Pinn2. Daddy Jones and Father Divine: The Cult as Political Religion C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya3. An Interpretation of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown: Implications for the Black Church Archie Smith, Jr.4. Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of People Temple Rebecca Moore5. Peoples Temple and Housing Politics in San Francisco Tanya M. Hollis6. To Die for the Peoples Temple: Religion and Revolution after Black Power Duchess Harris and Adam John Waterman7. Jim Jones and Black Worship Traditions Milmon Harrison8. Breaking the Silence: Reflections of a Black Pastor J. Alfred Smith9. America Was Not Hard to Find Muhammed Isaiah Kenyatta10. The Church in Peoples Temple Mary R. SawyerContributorsIndex