The Onliest One Alive
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The Onliest One Alive
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Author : Catherine Thrash
language : en
Publisher: Marian K. Towne
Release Date : 1995
The Onliest One Alive written by Catherine Thrash and has been published by Marian K. Towne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Cults categories.
Chapters include "Comin Up in Alabama," "Opportunity in Indiana," "My Life as a Woman," "With Jim Jones in Indianapolis," "Following Jim to California," "End Times in Jonestown, Guyana," "Back Home Again in California & Indiana." Only extant account of poor, African-American, elderly, disabled woman survivor, including why & how she survived. Richard Fears, Religious Studies Instructor, Ball State University, says, "Hyacinth Thrash can teach people a lot about themselves & their misperceptions...She is one gutsy lady!" Wilma Gibbs, Program Activist, Indiana Historical Society, says, "The story of the Jonestown incident is like a giant puzzle with missing sections that continues to reach closer to home." Bette Joe Davis, Ph.D., (ret.) Professor of Education, "I couldn't put it down." To order: Marian K. Towne, 5129 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, IN 46208-2613; 317-253-7973.
A Thousand Lives
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Author : Julia Scheeres
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-10-11
A Thousand Lives written by Julia Scheeres and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with History categories.
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers leaned on each other to recapture the sense of equality that had drawn them to his church. But even as the congregation thrived, Jones made it increasingly difficult for members to leave. By the time Jones moved his congregation to a remote jungle in Guyana and the US government began to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late. A Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told. New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from tens of thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there. The people who built Jonestown wanted to forge a better life for themselves and their children. In South America, however, they found themselves trapped in Jonestown and cut off from the outside world as their leader goaded them toward committing “revolutionary suicide” and deprived them of food, sleep, and hope. Vividly written and impossible to forget, A Thousand Lives is a story of blind loyalty and daring escapes, of corrupted ideals and senseless, haunting loss.
Jones Jim
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language : en
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Jones Jim written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Cults categories.
An article about the showing of "The Onliest One Alive", a film featuring Hyacinth Thrash regarding the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones was a cult leader and Thrasher was one of his followers. Jones convinced his entire cult to commit suicide and Thrasher was the only one left alive.
Always A People
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Author : Rita T. Kohn
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1997
Always A People written by Rita T. Kohn and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Forty-one individuals, from seventeen different tribes, representing eleven nations, tell their stories in Always a People. As descendants of people who shaped the history of the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, the narrators herein continue to feel closely bound to the land from which most of them have been forcibly removed. The eleven nations represented in this volume are the Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria, Oneida, Ottawa, Winnebago, Sac and Fox, Chippewa, and Kickapoo. All of the people interviewed here have a very deep and abiding commitment to their families and speak of great-great grandparents as intimately as they do of their parents. All see themselves as real people who do not fit the stereotypes often associated with ""native Americans."" All speak of the urgency for making room for multiple voices drawn from many traditions.
Making Good The Claim
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Author : Rufus Burrow
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-02-16
Making Good The Claim written by Rufus Burrow and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-16 with Social Science categories.
The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity. Standard histories of the group proudly argue that the founder and pioneers exhibited a zeal for interracial unity that began to wane only in the early years of the twentieth century. This book rejects that claim and argues instead that little to no extant hard evidence supports that view. Moreover, Making Good the Claim argues that while blacks eagerly joined the group, they did so not because whites expended much energy evangelizing among them but because they heard something deeper in the message of holiness and visible unity than God's expectation that members achieve spiritual and church unity. Unlike most whites, blacks interpreted the message to call for unity along racial lines as well. This book challenges members of the Church of God to begin forthwith to make good their historic claim about holiness and visible unity, particularly as it applies to interracial unity.
Minority Religions And Fraud
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Author : Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Minority Religions And Fraud written by Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Religion categories.
Analysing both fraud and religion as social constructs with different functions and meanings attributed to them, this book raises issues that are central to debates about the limits of religious toleration in diverse societies, and the possible harm (as well as benefits) that religious organisations can visit upon society and individuals. There has already been a lively debate concerning the structural context in which abuse, especially sexual abuse, can be perpetrated within religion. Contributors to the volume proceed from the premise that similar arguments about ways in which structure and power may be conducive to abuse can be made about fraud and deception. Both can contribute to abuse, yet they are often less easily demonstrated and proven, hence less easily prosecuted. With a focus on minority religions, the book offers a comparative overview of the concept of religious fraud by bringing together analyses of different types of fraud or deception (financial, bio-medical, emotional, breach of trust and consent). Contributors examine whether fraud is necessarily intentional (or whether that is in the eye of the beholder); certain structures may be more conducive to fraud; followers willingly participate in it. The volume includes some chapters focused on non-Western beliefs (Juju, Occult Economies, Dharma Lineage), which have travelled to the West and can be found in North American and European metropolitan areas.
Peoples Temple And Black Religion In America
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Author : Rebecca Moore
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-11
Peoples Temple And Black Religion In America written by Rebecca Moore and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-11 with Religion categories.
The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 men, women, and children died in a ritual of murder and suicide in their utopianist community of Jonestown, Guyana. Only a handful lived to tell their story. As is well known, Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, was white, but most of his followers were black. Despite that, little has been written about Peoples Temple in the context of black religion in America. In 10 essays, writers from various disciplines address this gap in the scholarship. Twenty-five years after the tragedy at Jonestown, they assess the impact of the black religious experience on Peoples Temple.
Indiana Out Loud
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Author : Dan Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Release Date : 2013-08
Indiana Out Loud written by Dan Carpenter and has been published by Indiana Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with History categories.
Since 1976, Dan Carpenter’s writing has appeared in the pages of the Indianapolis Star as a police reporter, book critic, and renowned op-ed columnist. In writing for the state’s largest newspaper, Carpenter has covered the life and times of some notable Hoosiers, as well as serving as a voice for the disadvantaged, sometimes exasperating the Star’s readership in central Indiana as the newspaper’s “house liberal.” Indiana Out Loud is a collection of the best of Carpenter’s work since 1993 and includes timely and engaging examinations of the lives of such intriguing people as wrestling announcer Sam Menacker, survivor of the James Jones People’s Temple massacre Catherine Hyacinth Thrash, Indianapolis African American leader Charles “Snookie” Hendricks, Atlas Grocery impresario Sid Maurer, and coaches James “Doc” Counsilman and Ray Crowe. The book also includes a healthy dose of literary figures, politicians, historians, knaves, crooks, and fools.
Understanding Jonestown And Peoples Temple
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Author : Rebecca Moore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-07-06
Understanding Jonestown And Peoples Temple written by Rebecca Moore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-06 with Philosophy categories.
This in-depth investigation of Peoples Temple and its tragic end at Jonestown corrects sensationalized misunderstandings of the group and places its individual members within the broader context of religion in America. Most people understand Peoples Temple through its violent disbanding following events in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 Americans committed murder and suicide in a jungle commune. Media coverage of the event sensationalized the group and obscured the background of those who died. The view that emerged thirty years ago continues to dominate understanding of Jonestown today, despite the dozens of books, articles, and documentaries that have appeared. This book provides a fresh perspective on Peoples Temple, locating the group within the context of religion in America and offering a contemporary history that corrects the inaccuracies often associated with the group and its demise. Although Peoples Temple had some of the characteristics many associate with cults, it also shared many characteristics of black religion in America. Moreover, it is crucial to understand how the organization fits into the social and political movements of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s: race, class, colonialism, gender, and other issues dominated the times and so dominated the consciousness of the members of Peoples Temple. Here, Rebecca Moore, who lost three family members in the events in Guyana, offers a framework for U.S. social, cultural, and political history that helps readers to better understand Peoples Temple and its members.
Breeze
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Breeze written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American literature categories.