![]() Guinn's lucid and well-researched history lends substantial detail to such an awareness of the complexity of Jones, the religious group he led, and its ultimate fate. In popular perception "Jonestown" became and has remained a terrifying symbol of the dangers of "cult" membership, as in Rabbi Maurice Davis' early assertion that "the path of the cults leads to Jonestowns." Readers of Nova Religio are likely to be well aware of the exaggerations and simplifications that undergird such perceptions. ![]() ![]() After the more than 900 deaths in the jungle of Guyana at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Mission, both Jones and the religious community that he founded were understood primarily through the prism of those events. Before the tragic events of November 1978, Jim Jones and Peoples Temple were well known almost exclusively to those with whom they came into direct contact. ![]()
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