| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.4

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Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America

Edited by Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, and Mary R. Sawyer

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 204. Notes, charts, tables, index. $49.95.)

More than a quarter century after its tragic demise in the jungles of British Guyana, the Peoples Temple and its charismatic leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, continue to fascinate scholars. This collection of essays attempts to understand Jones's messianic movement and its implications for the sociology, politics, and history of African American religion.

According to the editors, while previous scholarship about the Peoples Temple and Jonestown acknowledges the heavy participation of African Americans, it fails "to explore in a substantive way the implications of these demographics," especially the numerous ways that the predominantly white leadership of the Peoples Temple "emulated Black Church culture in style and form, and to some extent, in substance" (p. xiii).

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