RELI 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mass Suicide, New Religious Movement, Edwin Mellen Press
1 Dec 2015
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Ideas: the difference in the idea of protection: a. Members have rules to follow to ensure jonestown legacy. Telling them to commit suicide or be killed by a capitalist society: jonestown members: Members following rules to avoid beating (self-protection) Members making sure others follow rules or beating (protection of others) If they don"t, that"s when they tell jj and therefore beating ensues. 1: purpose of blackmail via jones, following rules means jonestown lives on, fighting the capitalist, background differences: society, us cannot win. a. Sought to help others: members are from a different demographic and wealth income. Sought to help themselves through jj: differences in the blaming game (p7 red) Jj on us a: members on members and on jj (deceit and manipulation techniques-defectors i. e. , us on jj, access to information a. Jj had outsiders in high places that could stop functions from their demise.
