When over 900 followers of the People's Temple religious movement
committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and
fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as
brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals
that originally inspired People's Temple members. ""Hearing the
Voices of Jonestown"" restores the individual voices that have been
erased, so that we can better understand what was created - and
destroyed - at Jonestown, and why. Piecing together information
from interviews with former group members, archival research, and
diaries and letters of those who died there, Mary McCormick Maaga
describes the women leaders as educated political activists who
were passionately committed to achieving social justice through
communal life. She provides evidence that shows many of these women
voiced their discontent with the actions of the People's Temple in
the months right before the mass suicide. The book puts human faces
on the events at Jonestown, confronting theoretical religious
questions as Maaga attempts to reconcile how worthy utopian ideals
come to meet such tragic and misguided ends.
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