Hearing the Voices of Jonestown Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy【電子書籍】[ Mary Maaga ]

＜p＞When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals that originally inspired Peoples Temple members. ＜em＞Hearing the Voices of Jonestown＜/em＞ restores the individual voices that have been erased so that we can better understand what was createdーand destroyedーat Jonestown, and why.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Piecing together information from interviews with former group members, archival research, and diaries and letters of those who died there, Maaga describes the women leaders as educated political activists who were passionately committed to achieving social justice through communal life. The book analyzes the historical and sociological factors that, Maaga finds, contributed to the mass suicide, such as growing criticism from the larger community and the influx of an upper-class, educated leadership．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る