jonestown guyana - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Hearing the Voices of Jonestown

Book by Mary McCormick Maaga; Syracuse University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Jonestown (Guyana)--Religion, Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978, Peoples Temple

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...paper 1. Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. 2. Peoples Temple. 3. Jonestown Guyana --Religion I. Title. II. Series. BP605...Congressman Leo Ryan had been murdered at Jonestown, Guyana. This experience was the beginning of...
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Empowering a Peasantry in a Caribbean Context: The Case of Land Settlement Schemes in Guyana, 1865-1985

Book by Carl B. Greenidge; University of the West Indies Press, 2001

Subjects:

Agriculture And Politics--Guyana, Guyana--Economic Conditions, Land Reform--Guyana--History, Land Settlement--Guyana--History, Land Tenure--Guyana--History, Peasantry--Guyana

Collections: Entire Library

...The Case of Land Settlement Schemes in Guyana, 1865-1985 Carl B. Greenidge The...the case of land settlement schemes in Guyana, 1865-1985 / Carl B. Greenidge. p.cm...ISBN: 976-640-068-7 1. Land settlement Guyana - History. 2. Land tenure - Guyana - History...
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Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identities in Guyana

Book by Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Women--Guyana--Identity, Women--Guyana--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana.
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How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate

Book by Catherine Wessinger; Seven Bridges Press, 2000

Subjects:

Millennialism--Case Studies, Violence--Religious Aspects--Case Studies

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Through common sense & clear language, Wessinger provides the essential tools for understanding millennial beliefs & the complex internal mix that shapes a religious group's decision to embrace or reject violence.
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The Labyrinth of Universality: Wilson Harris's Visionary Art of Fiction

Book by Rena Maes-Jelinek; Rodopi, 2006

Subjects:

Guyana--In Literature, Harris, Wilson--1921---Criticism And Interpretation, Postcolonialism In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Rights and Wilson Harriss Jonestown, in Union in Partition: Essays...I was indeed discovering Guyana, of which I knew nothing...contain an element of terror. In Jonestown, Bone applies the bone-flute...Harris calls the 23 Harris, Jonestown (London: Faber Faber, 1996...

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David Chidester. Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

Journal article by Bill Metcalf; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...violence occurred in Guyana that crystallized in...Jonestown event. A congressional...Agricultural Project, Jonestown, Guyana, died in a...new commune, known as Jonestown, in Guyana. Of these almost exclusively...
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Guyana: Changes in Ideology and Foreign Policy

Journal article by Ralph R. Premdas; World Affairs, Vol. 145, 1982

Subjects:

Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace

Collections: Entire Library

...delivered in August 1979, after the bombings. 59 See Sackey, "Transformation in Guyana". 60 See Penny Lernoux, "Jonestown Nation", The Nation , 15 November 1980 , pp. 510-511; also "Guyanas Bid for Hydro Power...
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Bradley C. Whitsel. the Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement

Journal article by John W. Freisen; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...organizations such as the Aum Shinrikyo (Japan), Branch Davidians (Waco, Texas), Heavens Gate (Tancho Santa Fe, California), Jonestown (Guyana), and the Order of the Solar Temple (France, Quebec, and Switzerland). It is quite likely that CUT authorities were...
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Religious Devoutness Construed as Pathology: The Myth of "Religious Mania"

Journal article by Robert E. Bartholomew, Julian D. O'Dea; International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Vol. 8, 1998

Subjects:

Psychology, Religious--Periodicals

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...900 Peoples Temple members at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Almost...Freudian model to analyze the Jonestown event as exemplifying "collective...group psychology of mass madness: Jonestown". Political Psychology...
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Suicide Coverage in Newspapers: an Ethical Consideration

Journal article by Elizabeth B Ziesenis, Carol Burnett; Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 6, 1991

Subjects:

Journalistic Ethics, Mass Media--Moral And Ethical Aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...November 1978 suicide of more than 900 people in Jonestown, Guyana ( Stack, 1983). Crisis Theory and Intervention...Bacon. Stack, S. ( 1983 ). "The effect of the Jonestown suicides on American sui cide rates". Journal...

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JONESTOWN MASSACRE: The Unrevealed Story

Magazine article by Jeff A. Schnepper; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 127, January 1999

Subjects:

Buford, Teresa--Testimony, Jones, Jim (Cult leader)--Behavior, Jonestown, Guyana, Massacres

Collections: Entire Library

...hundreds of people in Jonestown, Guyana. While the deaths...politicians. He saw Guyana as an experiment...and believed that Jonestown political forces...Ryan was killed at Jonestown. Seven weeks...Jones had come to Guyana to build a city...
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He Lived to Tell: Openly Gay Jonestown Resident Vernon Gosney Escaped the Commune with Three Bullet Wounds, but His 5-Year-Old Son Was Not as Lucky

Magazine article by Paul Vandecarr; The Advocate, November 25, 2003

Subjects:

Cults, Cults--Personal narratives, Dissenters, Religious, Dissenters, Religious--1970s (Decade) AD, Gosney, Vernon--Biography, Gosney, Vernon--Interviews, Jonestown Massacre, Guyana, 1978--Personal narratives, People's Temple--Personal narratives, Religious dissenters--1970s (Decade) AD

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Gosney figured, was to go to Jonestown, a new society that a Peoples...the South American country of Guyana. "I wanted my son to grow up...members and keeping them in Guyana against their will. After Ryans...the congressman gathered 16 Jonestown residents who wanted to leave...
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Death of Dreams: In November 1978, Harvey Milk's Murder and the Mass Suicides at Jonestown Nearly Broke San Francisco's Spirit. Eerily, Milk Knew and Worked with Jonestown Founder Jim Jones

Magazine article by Paul Vandecarr; The Advocate, November 25, 2003

Subjects:

Cults, Cults--1970s (Decade) AD, Cults--History, Cults--Social aspects, Gay politicians, Gay politicians--1970s (Decade) AD, Gay politicians--Crimes against, Gay politicians--Death of, Gay politicians--Social policy, Jones, Jim (Cult leader), Jonestown Massacre, Guyana, 1978, Milk, Harvey--Crimes against, Milk, Harvey--Death of, Milk, Harvey--Social policy, Moscone, George--Crimes against, Moscone, George--Death of, People's Temple--History, People's Temple--Social aspects, San Francisco, California--History, San Francisco, California--Public opinion, San Francisco, California--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...other. The deaths took place in ,Jonestown, a communal settlement in the South American country of Guyana, built by members of Joness San Francisco-based...in late 1977. A settlement in the Guyana jungle, Jonestown was promoted as a multiracial socialist...
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SEDUCTIVE POISON: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

Magazine article by Bettina Drew; The Nation, Vol. 268, February 1, 1999

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...the tragedy of Jonestown, Guyana, twenty years ago...to his move to Guyana. Expanding his...own apocalypse in Jonestown. A large part...outside world. Though Jonestown wasnt racially...plantation slavery in Guyana. For, like slaves...
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The Peoples Temple Collection

Magazine article; California History, Vol. 83, Spring 2005

Subjects:

People's Temple--Investigations, People's Temple--Membership, People's Temple--Records and correspondence, Religious institutions--Investigations, Religious institutions--Membership, Religious institutions--Records and correspondence, Religious organizations--Investigations, Religious organizations--Membership, Religious organizations--Records and correspondence

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of 918 people in Jonestown, Guyana, a small country...agricultural community in Guyana; California Congressman...fact-finding mission to Jonestown in response to...than nine hundred Jonestown residents died...in Georgetown, Guyanas capital. In San...

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Guyana Leader Faces Unrest, Economic Woes: After First Year, New Investment a Jagan Priority

Newspaper article by Larry Luxner; The Washington Times, December 8, 1998

Subjects:

Guyana

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that first put Guyana on the map for most Americans: the suicide-murder of 913 religious cultists at Jonestown. But the anniversary most of Guyanas 775,000 inhabitants really care about has nothing to do with Jonestown. Nearly a year has passed...
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Roberts Criticized Award to Lawmaker in '83; Memo Questioned Actions of Official Killed in Jonestown Massacre

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 1, 2005

Subjects:

Ryan, Leo J.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...were living in the South American nation of Guyana in a community known as Jonestown. Some sect members tried to leave with Mr. Ryan...trying to board a plane to fly back. Then, at Jonestown, 913 persons died, many from drinking cyanide-laced...
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Books: Now on Sale

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 8, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Deborah Layton (Aurum Press, pounds 14.99) In November 1978, 913 men, women and children committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, after swallowing a cyanide-laced fruit drink on the orders of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. One of the...
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In the Footsteps of the Self-Elected

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, August 4, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Mind." "Feet of Clay" sets out in discursive vein with short visits to the sinister worlds of Jim Jones of Jonestown, Guyana, and David Koresh, whose Waco, Texas, religious community was incinerated by federal agents. The next chapter takes...
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1970-1979

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 27, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Leo Ryan and four others go to Jonestown, Guyana, to look into reports that relatives...Ryan and his entourage at the Jonestown airfield. Shortly after the...Cult leader Jim Jones, Jonestown, Guyana, Nov. 18, 1978 I have committed...

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Guyana

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...followers, mostly Americans, of a religious cult (the Peoples Temple) led by Jim Jones committed suicide in Jonestown, a jungle village in Guyana. In 1980 a new constitution was adopted, under which Burnham became president. In the early 1980s, the...
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Jones, Jim

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...personal use, he and about 1,000 followers relocated to Jonestown, Guyana (1977). In Nov., 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo J. Ryan...Commitment (1982); J. M. Weightman, Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides (1984); D. Chidester, Salvation and Suicide...
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Cult

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...controversy. Cults insularity and distrust of society sometimes lead to violent conflicts with the law. In 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana, followers of Jim Jones killed a U.S. congressman who was investigating Jones, and then Jones and more than 900...

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