| Revisiting Jonestown: An Interdisciplinary Study of Cults Contributor(s): Arturo Nesci, Domenico (Author), McWilliams, Nancy (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1498552692 ISBN-13: 9781498552691 Publisher: Lexington Books
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2017 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Denominations - Religion | Cults - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 289.9 |
| LCCN: 2017044236 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.95 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Features: Bibliography, Index |
| Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2018 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Revisiting Jonestown covers three main topics: the psycho-biography of Jim Jones (the leader of the suicidal community) from the new perspective of Prenatal Psychology and transgenerational trauma, the story of his Peoples Temple, with emphasis on what kind of leadership and membership were responsible for their tragic end, and the interpretation of death rituals by religious cults as regression to primordial stages of human evolution, when a series of genetic mutations changed the destiny of Homo Sapiens, at the dawn of religion and human awareness. A pattern of collective suicide is finally identified, making it possible to foresee and try to prevent its tragic repetition. At the same time, through an artistic editorial work on original images from the Peoples Temple files, a sort of Multimedia Psychotherapy is subliminally delivered in order to help the mourning of the victims of Jonestown, to whose memory the book is dedicated. |
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