Revisiting Jonestown
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary study of cults
By: Domenico A. Nesci ; [foreword by Nancy McWilliams]
Contributors: McWilliams, Nancy, writer of foreword
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781498552691
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Mass suicide; Religious Psychology; Cults; Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978; Peoples Temple
Description: "Revisiting Jonestown covers three main topics: the psycho-biography of Jim Jones (the leader of the suicidal community) from the new perspective of Prenatal Psychology and transgenerational trauma, the story of his Peoples Temple, with emphasis on what kind of leadership and membership were responsible for their tragic end, and the interpretation of death rituals by religious cults as regression to primordial stages of human evolution, when a series of genetic mutations changed the destiny of Homo Sapiens, at the dawn of religion and human awareness. A pattern of collective suicide is finally identified, making it possible to foresee and try to prevent its tragic repetition"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Jim Jones : psychobiography of a cult leader; title: 2. Peoples Temple and placental leadership; title: 3. Peoples Temple and syncytial membership; title: 4. From miracles and exoduses to the white night; title: 5. Interdisciplinary reflections; title: 6. The death ritual of Jonestown; title: 7. Fractals; title: Conclusion.