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Acknowledgment
Thanks to Dr. Stephen A. Kent for editorial
comments, and for facilitating access to some
secondary sources through the Stephen A. Kent
Collection on Alternative Religions, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
About the Author
Kristian Klippenstein is a PhD student in the
University of Alberta’s Interdisciplinary
Program of Religious Studies, supervised by Dr.
Stephen A. Kent. Aside from Jonestown, his
research interests include Anabaptist
communities, and his dissertation will analyze
the impact of leaders’ deaths on high-demand
religions. He can be reached at
kdklippe@ualberta.ca
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157). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Taylor, James Lance. 2013. Black churches, Peoples Temple, and
civil rights politics in San Francisco. In R. Drew Smith (Ed.),
From every mountainside: Black churches and the broad terrain of
civil rights (pp. 85–110). Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press.
Twemlow, Stuart W., &Hough, George. 2008 (Winter). The cult
leader as agent of a psychotic fantasy of masochistic group death:
The revolutionary suicide in Jonestown, Psychoanalysis and
Psychotherapy, 24(2), 222–239.
Willey, Robin. 2013. Religion, revisionists, and revolutionary
suicide: A Marxist framework for the rise and fall of communal
religious groups, International Journal of Cultic Studies, 4, 44–59.
Acknowledgment
Thanks to Dr. Stephen A. Kent for editorial
comments, and for facilitating access to some
secondary sources through the Stephen A. Kent
Collection on Alternative Religions, University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
About the Author
Kristian Klippenstein is a PhD student in the
University of Alberta’s Interdisciplinary
Program of Religious Studies, supervised by Dr.
Stephen A. Kent. Aside from Jonestown, his
research interests include Anabaptist
communities, and his dissertation will analyze
the impact of leaders’ deaths on high-demand
religions. He can be reached at
kdklippe@ualberta.ca
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