Articles by Rebecca Moore
 
 




Rebecca Moore is Chair of the Department of Classics and Humanities, and professor and former chair of the Department of Religious Studies, at San Diego State University. Her specialties are Jewish and Christian dialogue, religion in America, and new religions. She is a co-editor of Nova Religio, a journal specializing in alternative and emergent religions. She has written and published extensively on Peoples Temple and Jonestown, and her most recent book is Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple (Praeger, 2009). She is also the co-manager of this website.

Address at May 29, 2011 Jonestown Memorial Dedication Service (2011) NEW

History Comes Alive: Jonestown in the Classroom (2010)

Carolyn’s Other Letters (2009)

The Sacred and the Profane in Wilson Harris’ Jonestown (2008)

Survivors Speak Thirty Years Later (2008)

The Sacrament of Suicide (2006)

Garrett Scott - An Appreciation (2006)

Katrina and Jonestown (2005)

The Strange Case of Garry Scarff (2005)

Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Cultural Transformation of a Tragedy (2002)

Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown (2002)

Comments on "Reconstructing Reality: Conspiracy Theories About Jonestown" by Rebecca Moore by Ken McCarthy

A Response to Ken McCarthy's Comments by Rebecca Moore

“American as Cherry Pie” (2000)

“Last Rights” (1988)

A Sympathetic History of Jonestown (1985) (selected chapters)
            Chapter 11: “The Vise”
            Chapter 12: “Last To Die”
            Chapter 13: “Closing the Books”
            Chapter 14: “Residual Suspicion”
            Excerpts from Chapter 16: “McGehee v. CIA”

Rebecca Moore also edited two collections of letters from her two sisters who died in Jonestown. “Letters from Annie Moore”  and “Letters from Carolyn Moore Layton” appear in the Primary Sources section of the site.