Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements: Transoceanic Comparisons of New Religious Movements

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Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements

Transoceanic Comparisons of New Religious Movements

Edited by: G. W. Trompf

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1990

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Volume 29 | Religion and Society

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
TABLE OF CONTENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
List of Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
List of Figures. List of maps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	x
FOREWORD Harold W. Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xi
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
The Pacific Circle
Chapter One. The Cargo and the Millennium on both sides of the Pacific Garry Trompf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
White America and the Western World
Chapter Two. The Americanization of Adam John Bracht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Chapter Three. Esoteric Adventism: three esoteric Christian Adventist Movements of the first half of the Twentieth Century Gregory Tillett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Melanesia and Eastern Indonesia
Chapter Four. Journeys of Transformation: the Discovery and Disclosure of Cosmic Secrets in Melanesia Roderic Lacey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	180
Chapter Five. The Cultivation of Surprise and Excess The Encounter of Cultures in the Sepik of Papua New Guinea Patrick Gesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Chapter Six. Knowledge of Cargo, Knowledge of Cult: Truth and Power on Tanna, Vanuatu Lamont Lindstrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Chapter Seven. Spirit Movements in Timor Graham Brookes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Black America and Africa
Chapter Eight. One Love – One Heart – One Destiny A Report on the Ras Tafarian Movement in Jamaica Karlene Faith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Chapter Nine. The Black Muslims in American Society: from Millenarian Protest to Trans-Continental Relationships Dennis Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Chapter Ten. On Wearing the Victor’s Uniforms and Replacing their Churches Southwest Africa (Namibia) 1920–50 Zedekiah Ngavirue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
457-458 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	457

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eBook published on:

October 25, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110874419

Hardcover published on:

March 1, 1990

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110121667

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Reprint 2012

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17

Main content:

456

Illustrations:

13

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874419

eBook ISBN: 9783110874419

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110121667

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