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Sexton, Sharon. 1983. “Suffer the Children.” Boston Phoenix,
Section One, April 19, p. 1ff.
Shupe, Anson D., Jr., and David Bromley. 1982. “Shaping the
Public Response to Jonestown: People’s [sic] Temple and the
Anticult Movement.” In Violence and Religious Commitment:
Implications of Jim Jones’s People’s [sic] Temple Movement,
edited by Ken Levi. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania
State University Press, pp. 105–132, 186–187.
Smith, Jonathan Z. 1982. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to
Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Snow, David A. 1990. Review of John R. Hall, Gone From the
Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.
American Journal of Sociology 95 No. 4 (January): 1101–1102.
Swantko, Jean A. 2000. “‘The Twelve Tribes’ Communities, the
Anti-Cult Movement, and Government’s Response.” Social Justice
Research 12 No. 4: 341–364.
———. 2004. “The Twelve Tribes Messianic Communities, the
Anti-Cult Movement, and Governmental Response.” In Regulating
Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe, edited by James T.
Richardson. London: Kluwer Academic, 179–200.
———. 2005–2006. “Retrospective on 1984: The Island Pond
Raid: What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then.”
Vermont Bar Journal (Winter): 44–50.
Swantko, Jean A., and Ed Wiseman. 1995. “Taking Our Children,
Part I: Messianic Communities, Sociologists, and the Law.”
Communities 88 (Fall): 34–35.
United Nations. 1989. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Retrieved December 13, 2009 (www.unicef.org/crc/).
United Press International. 1982. Untitled article, 22nd story of
Level 1, November 10.
Wedge, Dave. 2001. “The Cult Next Door: Teen Shares Chilling
Tale of Alleged Abuse Inside the Twelve Tribes Sect.” Boston
Herald, September 4.
Weightman, Judith Mary (1983). Making Sense of the Jonestown
Suicides: A Sociological History of Peoples Temple.
Toronto: Edwin Mellen Press.
Wooden, Kenneth. 1981. The Children of Jonestown. Toronto:
McGraw-Hill Paperback.
Wright, Stuart A. 1989. Review of John R. Hall, Gone From the
Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion 28 No. 1 (March): 92, 94.
Zabarsky. Marsha. 1982. “The Kingdom at Island Pond.”
Newsweek, November 29, p. 53.
About the Author
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D., Professor of
Sociology, University of Alberta, teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses on the
sociology of religion and the sociology of
sectarian groups. He has published articles in
numerous sociology and religious study
journals. His 2001 book, From Slogans to
Mantras: Social Protest and Religious
Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era, was
selected by Choice: Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries as an “Outstanding
Academic Title for 2002.”
Sexton, Sharon. 1983. “Suffer the Children.” Boston Phoenix,
Section One, April 19, p. 1ff.
Shupe, Anson D., Jr., and David Bromley. 1982. “Shaping the
Public Response to Jonestown: People’s [sic] Temple and the
Anticult Movement.” In Violence and Religious Commitment:
Implications of Jim Jones’s People’s [sic] Temple Movement,
edited by Ken Levi. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania
State University Press, pp. 105–132, 186–187.
Smith, Jonathan Z. 1982. Imagining Religion: From Babylon to
Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Snow, David A. 1990. Review of John R. Hall, Gone From the
Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History.
American Journal of Sociology 95 No. 4 (January): 1101–1102.
Swantko, Jean A. 2000. “‘The Twelve Tribes’ Communities, the
Anti-Cult Movement, and Government’s Response.” Social Justice
Research 12 No. 4: 341–364.
———. 2004. “The Twelve Tribes Messianic Communities, the
Anti-Cult Movement, and Governmental Response.” In Regulating
Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe, edited by James T.
Richardson. London: Kluwer Academic, 179–200.
———. 2005–2006. “Retrospective on 1984: The Island Pond
Raid: What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then.”
Vermont Bar Journal (Winter): 44–50.
Swantko, Jean A., and Ed Wiseman. 1995. “Taking Our Children,
Part I: Messianic Communities, Sociologists, and the Law.”
Communities 88 (Fall): 34–35.
United Nations. 1989. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Retrieved December 13, 2009 (www.unicef.org/crc/).
United Press International. 1982. Untitled article, 22nd story of
Level 1, November 10.
Wedge, Dave. 2001. “The Cult Next Door: Teen Shares Chilling
Tale of Alleged Abuse Inside the Twelve Tribes Sect.” Boston
Herald, September 4.
Weightman, Judith Mary (1983). Making Sense of the Jonestown
Suicides: A Sociological History of Peoples Temple.
Toronto: Edwin Mellen Press.
Wooden, Kenneth. 1981. The Children of Jonestown. Toronto:
McGraw-Hill Paperback.
Wright, Stuart A. 1989. Review of John R. Hall, Gone From the
Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion 28 No. 1 (March): 92, 94.
Zabarsky. Marsha. 1982. “The Kingdom at Island Pond.”
Newsweek, November 29, p. 53.
About the Author
Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D., Professor of
Sociology, University of Alberta, teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses on the
sociology of religion and the sociology of
sectarian groups. He has published articles in
numerous sociology and religious study
journals. His 2001 book, From Slogans to
Mantras: Social Protest and Religious
Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era, was
selected by Choice: Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries as an “Outstanding
Academic Title for 2002.”
