How Do You Know When You're in a Cult?: The Continuing Influence of Peoples Temple and Jonestown in Contemporary Minority Religions and Popular Culture
This article examines representations of Peoples Temple in popular culture through the lens of mimesis, understood as a process of repetition and re-creation of specific elements. This process produces what is understood as a cult in popular culture, which is divorced from the complex historical r...
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University of Californiarnia Press
[2018]
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Nova religio
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-114 |
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Peoples Temple
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/ Everyday culture
/ New religiosity
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Peoples Temple
B minority religions B Mimesis B United States of America B Popular Culture B Cults |
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