The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown by Rebecca Moore


The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown
Title : The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown
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ISBN : 0889466491
ISBN-10 : 9780889466494
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 244
Publication : Published January 1, 1989

A collection of fifteen essays by persons who were touched in some way by the mass deaths in Guyana. The volume includes reflections by former Peoples Temple members, insights by psychologists and counselors, and confessions by relatives vividly reveal what happened to individuals in the decade following November 18, 1978.

Contents:
A San Francisco activist remembers / Fran Peavey
Prophet without honor: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple in Mendocino County / Thomas MacMillan
Notes on Peoples Temple / Carlton Goodlett
Race, religion and belief in San Francisco / Donneter and John Lane
Coercion, control and mass suicide / Chris Hatcher
A light at the end of the tunnel / Garry L. Scarff
Together we stood, divided we fell / B. Alethia Orsot
The emergency relief committee / Donneter Lane, Malcolm Sparer and John O'Connor
After Jonestown: survivors of Peoples Temple / Chris Hatcher
Reflections on the Human Freedom Center / Lowell Streiker
We cannot forget our own / Jynona M. Norwood
The death of two daughters: grieving and remembering / Barbara Moore
Jonestown, Guyana 1988 / Hugh Vandeyar
Life ten years after Jonestown: the Peoples Temple legacy / Kathy Barbour
Jonestown: catalyst for social change / Robert B. Moore

The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown Reviews

  • Jennifer

    The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown is volume fourty-one in the Studies in American Religion series. It is a collection of essays by people who were touched in some way by the events in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978. Reflections by former Peoples Temple members, insights by psychologists and counselors and revelations by relatives reveal what has transpired in the decade that has followed the tragedy. This volume, edited by Rebecca Moore, also includes essays from her mother, Barbara Moore and her uncle Robert Buxton Moore. Their contributions to this work offer insight into how the Moore family dealt with the tragedy of Jonestown. There are no notes or works cited sections present. The volume features drawings by Joe Sam along with a section that offers a brief biography for each of the contributors.