Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements

G. W. Trompf

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9783110874419
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion & Science

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Pacific Circle
• 1 The Cargo and the Millennium on both sides of the Pacific
• White America and the Western World
• 2 The Americanization of Adam
• 3 Esoteric Adventism: three esoteric Christian Adventist movements of the first half of the twentieth century
• Melanesia and Eastern Indonesia
• 4 Journeys of transformation: the discovery and disclosure of cosmic secrets in Melanesia
• 5 The cultivation of surprise and excess: the encounter of cultures in the Sepik of Papua New Guinea
• 6 Knowledge of Cargo, knowledge of cult: truth and power on Tanna, Vanuatu
• 7 Spirit movements on Timor
• Black America and Africa
• 8 One love – one heart – one destiny: the Ras Tafarian movement in Jamaica
• 9 The Black Muslims in American society: from millenarian protest to trans-continental relationships
• 10 On wearing the victor’s uniforms and replacing their churches: South West Africa (Namibia) 1920–50
• Select Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index