Swaminarayan temples

Jonestown was a community built by Peoples Temple in Guyana that ended in tragedy with a death toll of 918 people. “Founded in 1956 by Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple accepted everyone into their church and focused on helping people in need. Jones originally established the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis, Indiana, but then moved it to Redwood Valley, California in 1966. Jones had a vision of a communist community, one in which everyone lived together in harmony and worked for the common good.” (Rosenberg)

Jonestown Mass-Murder Suicide “Prior to the 9/11 attack, the tragedy at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster”(Jonestown Massacre 2). Jim Jones, a cult leader of the Peoples Temple, was responsible for the loss of the 900+ people that died in Guyana on November 18, 1978. Before all of this Jim Jones was a normal man living a life as a preacher who preached against racism. Throughout his life he was very popular by “currying favor with public officials

Church in 1952. In 1956, Jim Jones founded his own church called The Peoples Temple. Jim Jones was officially ordained in 1964. Jones became interested in the work of George Baker, or Father Divine, in the late 1950s. He was inspired by the fact that Father Divine was a black preacher with a multiracial congregation, who claimed that he was God. Jim Jones was disgusted with segregation at “mainstream churches”. The Peoples Temple became racially integrated from the start. He supported and preached racial-equality

what was known as the Peoples Temple in the middle of Indianapolis in 1955 leading only just 20 followers at the time. After a year had past, the people’s temple started to make a name for itself by serving for the disadvantage and opening an orphanage. This started to draw a crowd to the temple and it manage to start almost a new religion. And when November 1978 arrived, Jim Jones managed to persuade 909 people to commit suicide that were a part of the people's temple at the time. Method of control:

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

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

Sociologists view cult behavior as a deviance from society’s norm. There are many theories as to why a cult leader forms a cult and how they garner such complete blind devotion from their members. While researching Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple I discovered that this particular cult adhered to several of the proven theories. Jones had few societal bonds and used fear and intimidation to control his members. He was an extreme socialist turned communist; when his original goals were met with

accomplished this by having every one drink a laced Kool-Aid. A few other things that will be discussed about with be how the Peoples Temple (the cult name) grew and got this many members. Also on what was in the drink and how they members were treated throughout while being in the organization. The Peoples Temple Jim Jones was the one who had founded this so called “Peoples Temple” in the 1950s in Indiana. But then later on he relocated his congregation

Shortly thereafter Jim Jones convinced his followers to sell all of their belonging and give the money to the Peoples Temple. Having raised the required money, Jim Jones was ready to begin the next phase of his plan. His followers were now socially and economically dependent on the Peoples Temple. Jim Jones formed an advanced team to go to Ghana and prepare the site of the Peoples Temple compound. After

to flocking onto planes for a vision of the good life. Over a thousand people join of what was known as the “Peoples Temple”. This entire Religious Movement was run by one man said to be the “Deliver of Peace ,Shepherd of his