{"id":1871,"date":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2009\/01\/12\/the-truth-behind-the-jonestown-massacre-insight-into-the-character-of-jim-jones-in-light-of-batailles-thought\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-truth-behind-the-jonestown-massacre-insight-into-the-character-of-jim-jones-in-light-of-batailles-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2009\/01\/12\/the-truth-behind-the-jonestown-massacre-insight-into-the-character-of-jim-jones-in-light-of-batailles-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Behind the Jonestown Massacre \u2013 Insight into the Character of Jim Jones in Light of Bataille\u2019s Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: In the autumn of 1978 in a rural area of Guyana, South America, a tragic event occurred, making headlines and remaining in the minds of many for years to come. A religious leader known as Rev. Jim Jones orchestrated a mass \u2018suicide\u2019 of over 900 people in a remote area known as Jonestown. Aims: To uncover the truth behind such an unusual event and really focus my attention upon the character of Jim Jones to see what led him to such an unfortunate end. I shall aim to do this by looking at the works of George Bataille. I intend to unmask not only the character of Jim Jones\u2019 character and his followers, but also that of Bataille. I shall focus on Bataille\u2019s own thought to see how it sheds light on the Jonestown massacre. Concepts: Bataille\u2019s notion of homogeneity versus heterogeneity. Bataille\u2019s views on religion in relation to Jim Jones\u2019. Bataille\u2019s on fascism versus Jones\u2019 on socialism Georges Bataille versus Jim Jones. Research: Bataille: Visions of Excess, Gemerchak, The Sunday of the Negative, Tim Reiterman, Raven-The untold story of the People\u2019s Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Priestley, 2009, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,22,128],"tags":[47,91,555],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-540","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-bataille","tag-death","tag-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}