RELI 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gossip, Faith Healing, Marxist Philosophy
1 Dec 2015
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They had been led to guyana by a messianic fundamentalist preacher whos faith- healing, old time religion and sophisticated marxist philosophy attracted him to unlettered blacks, whites from the okie migrations to california in the. 1930s, and cadres of alientated young people black and white who despaired of creating in the united states the inter-racial socialist dociety they longed for. The preacher was jim jones, who was called father by his flock; he had built a small religious order in ukaiah, california, into an influential political institution that was to flower and be destroyed in the guyana jungle. He saw himself as a reincarnation of christ and lenin (2) peoples temple. Leo j. ryan: liberal politician: lead mission to guyana people against him going to jt. Argue with cult ideology and get harshly physically punished resistance was forbidden (10) solidary confinement (11) trying to address family members" concerns.
