Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The temple swelled with new members-up to 20,000, Jones claimed. But his services became stranger and stranger. Jones would "heal" parishioners by pretending to draw forth "cancers" that actually were bloody chicken gizzards.
He said he was the actual God who made the heavens and earth." Jones ordered his followers to buy, and sell to the public, small pictures of him to ward off evil. He demanded for
With Jones' own behavior growing more paranoid and the sudden presence of the Congressman and the press, some experts believe there was almost a psychological inevitability to the disaster. "Following that type of fragmentation, there was only one thing left," says Dr. Stanley Cath, a Boston psychiatrist. "They could...
In Jones' cultish socialism, the spiritual and political were joined. In their terrific surrender, cultists reduce a multiform, contradictory world to cant formulas, and thus they become as dangerous as anyone whose head resounds with certainties.
DIVORCED. Albert Finney, 42, English stage and film actor (among his movies: Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express); and Anouk Aimée, 46, French actress (A Man and a Woman); after eight years of marriage; in London.