Revisiting Jonestown : an interdisciplinary study of cults / Domenico A. Nesci ; foreword by Nancy McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesci, Domenico Arturo, author.

Contributor:

McWilliams, Nancy, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.

Jones, Jim.

Peoples Temple.

Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.

Mass suicide.

Cults.

Psychology, Religious.

Guyana.

Physical Description:

xix, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

In Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults, Domenico A. Nesci provides a psychobiography of Jim Jones from the perspective of prenatal psychology and transgenerational trauma. Nesci tells the story of Peoples Temple and their last White Night and interprets death rituals by religious cults as a regression to the primordial stages of human evolution. In this way, Nesci identities a pattern of collective suicide, making an effort to prevent its tragic repetition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Jim Jones : psychobiography of a cult leader

2. Peoples Temple and placental leadership

3. Peoples Temple and syncytial membership

4. From miracles and exoduses to the white night

5. Interdisciplinary reflections

6. The death ritual of Jonestown

7. Fractals

Conclusion.

Notes:

Author of foreword taken from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nesci, Domenico Arturo. Revisiting Jonestown.

ISBN:

9781498552691

1498552692

OCLC:

1005201790

Publisher Number:

99975321501