Peoples Temple

The Peoples Temple began as a church that supported social equality and justice, but slowly changed into a prophetic movement; a network of individuals, tightly organized in a communal group that attaches its identity to charismatic leadership and the teachings of that leader. The movement’s leader Jim Jones claimed to be the “God-sent prophet” . In order to expand, he later moved his congregation to California and eventually Guyana where he created the closed community of Jonestown. However, in

A Look at Jonestown and the Peoples Temple Many people have heard the phrase “drinking the Kool-aid” but few actually know where the term comes from. The story of Jonestown and the Peoples Temple is a complex one with many different causes and can sometimes be a tough topic to learn about. Nonetheless, there is much to be learned from it, as it shows the dangers of putting too much blind loyalty into a person or cause. The story of Jonestown began in 1955 when a man named Jim Jones Started a Religion

Peoples Temple, which is recognized as the deadliest cult in American history, was founded in the 1950s by a man named Jim Jones in Indiana. The religion, previously known as Wings of Deliverance, was built on the goal of creating a congregation society that would overcome injustices, such as racism and poverty. Wings of Deliverance was first founded after Jones and his wife left Methodism because of the religion’s racial views. Though Jones had no theological training, he was a very charismatic

Peoples Temple On November 18, 1978 more than nine hundred people died in one of the largest mass murder/suicides in history. The man that implemented and carried out that atrocity was James Warren Jones, otherwise known as Jim Jones, a self proclaimed Second Coming (God). His exposure to an intensely emotional Pentecostal church service influenced and shaped his future beliefs and actions. In 1960, despite his lack of theological training, Jim Jones became an ordained minister. He made racial

Death of Peoples Temple “If we can’t live in peace, we’ll die in peace. Die with respect, die with a degree of dignity,” -Jim Jones [6]. These were the very last words 909 people heard on November 18th, 1978 as they slowly came to their last day of life. Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, left his followers with many unfilled promises after many years of nothing but complete loyalty and dedication to this man that they idealized and respected every word he preached to them. The Peoples Temple

In the historical documentary of the film “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples’ temple”. It featured the footage of the group named peoples’ temple. They were lead by a preacher named Jim Jones. He led a group of 900 members and had a mass suicide of the peoples’ temple. When watching the film they will be interviews with former temple members . Being the Jonestown survivors and people who knew Jones. The preacher Jim Jones had a vision of changing their world. He would tell them about the promise

Stanley Nelson’s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple reviews the actions of this religious group and analyzes its rise to popularity, then eventually its downfall. The Peoples temple was a religious, and later political, movement started by Jim Jones in 1955. It was an interracial congregation. Jones preached socialist and communist beliefs and took Christianity teachings to a radical level. The Peoples Temple had utopian ideals which led them to establish a community separate

discrimination was becoming more and more a part of an everyday battles that Peoples Temple were prepared to battle (History Channel) inequality was one of the main goals of Peoples Temple but when the group evolved into what it became into, people stayed because they still wanted to be a part of something that was bigger then them in pursuit of a greater cause. “He had marched with Martin Luther King and once believed that the Peoples Temple would fulfill his dream of integration and racial equality.(The belief

the Peoples Temple. On November 18th 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple, under the orders of their leader Jim Jones, partook of a poison laced cocktail and then held their loved ones close as death slowly embraced them. It’s hard to imagine that the 2nd largest loss of U.S. lives was a mass suicide driven by the members faith in their leader, Jim Jones, but deviant acts like this are common amongst cults. In fact, just hours prior to the mass suicide, armed guards from the Peoples Temple ended

The Peoples Temple A cult is a system sharing religious beliefs and devotion towards a specific figure or object. Every system or organization has a leader, and a cult leader is followed blindly by his/her followers. Leadership and control over people is a form of manipulation and the people who mastered it to perfection are the people who are at the top of the pyramid. Jim Jones is the founder of Peoples temple and he is a great example. He became one of the greatest puppet masters in the 20th century