Rebecca Moore's Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple, published by Praeger in 2009, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that Moore is an established academic researcher of new religious movements who has written extensively and carefully on Peoples Temple. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly study: it is one researcher's synthesis and interpretation of a large and still actively studied historical episode.
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Rebecca Moore's Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple, published by Praeger, is a scholarly study by an established academic researcher of new religious movements who has written extensively on Peoples Temple, treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship, notwithstanding that it remains one researcher's synthesis of a large and still actively studied historical episode. NotesScholarly study of Peoples Temple and the Jonestown mass deaths, Praeger, 2009.
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AuthorRebecca Moore
PublisherPraeger
Publication Year2009
Source Typebook
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- New Religious Movements, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
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