{"product_id":"hearing-the-voices-of-jonestown-mary-maaga-9780815605157","title":"Hearing the Voices of Jonestown: Putting a Human Face on an American Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group 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 Peoples Temple members. \u003ci\u003eHearing the Voices of Jonestown\u003c\/i\u003e restores the individual voices that have been erased so that we can better understand what was created--and destroyed--at Jonestown, and why. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePiecing together information from interviews with former group members, archival research, and diaries and letters of those who died there, Maaga describes the women leaders as educated political activists who were passionately committed to achieving social justice through communal life. The book analyzes the historical and sociological factors that, Maaga finds, contributed to the mass suicide, such as growing criticism from the larger community and the influx of an upper-class, educated leadership that eventually became more concerned with the symbolic effects of the organization than with the daily lives of its members. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHearing the Voices of Jonestown\u003c\/i\u003e puts human faces on the events at Jonestown, confronting theoretical religious questions, such as how worthy utopian ideals come to meet such tragic and misguided ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Maaga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815605153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815605157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.25w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/1998 pg. 71","brand":"Mary Maaga","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926464823551,"sku":"9780815605157","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_56b39c8e-1cd0-4c53-9a2d-267bdae3f8d4.jpg?v=1681083219","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hearing-the-voices-of-jonestown-mary-maaga-9780815605157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}