Catherine Wessinger is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate (2000), and the editor of Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases (2000). She is completing the editing of The Oxford Handbook on Millennialism. She is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. She may be reached at wessing@loyno.edu.

The Problem Is Totalism, Not “Cults” (2008)

Imagination and History: Tape Q875 and the Day after the Jonestown Mass Murders/Suicides (2005)

Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of Jonestown (2003)

1978 - Jonestown (2000)

How the Millennium Comes Violently (2000)