Peoples Temple combined Pentecostal and revivalist Christianity with ideals of racial integration, communism, socialism, shared property, and communal living. It was also influenced by Latin American liberation theology. By the 1970s the movement promoted what Jim Jones called “apostolic socialism,” an ideal of complete equality based on the life of the Apostles and intended to create heaven on earth. Its practices also included enthusiastic worship, faith healing, and claims of psychic knowledge.
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