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Language: en
Pages: 404
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-12 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-16 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 544
Pages: 544
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