xv, 207 pages ; 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-204) and index, Part one : Comparative perspective on Jonestown -- Jonestown and religious commitment in the 1970s / Ken Levi -- A comparison between Jonestown and other cults / James T. Richardson -- The Apocalypse at Jonestown / John R. Hall -- Part two : Concepts illuminating the People's Temple movement -- A self-concept for religious violence / Louis A. Zurcher -- Cult extremism : the reduction of normative dissonance / Edgar W. Mills, Jr. -- Changing worlds : observations on the processes of resocialization and transformations of subjective social reality / Lawrence J. Relinger and Philip K. Armour -- Part three : Understanding the reactions to Jonestown -- Shaping the public response to Jonestown : People's Temple and the anticult movement / Anson D. Shupe, Jr., and David Bromley -- Religious movements and the brainwashing issue / Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony -- Moral philosophy and the absurdity of Jonestown : a study in the democratization of tragedy / Edmund L. Erde -- Self-sacrifice as demonic : a theological response to Jonestown / Stanley Hauerwas -- Part four : Report of a former member of People's Temple -- Jonestown Masada / Jeannie Mills -- Conclusion : Religion and violence / Ken Levi