Inside the Cult Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea

Zusammenfassung The millenarian cult of Pomio Kivung in Papua New Guinea looks forward to the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of ancestors bearing "cargo". Drawing on this belief, this study develops an original theory of modes of religiosity.

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• Authors: Harvey (University Lecturer in Social Anthropology Whitehouse, Harvey (University Lecturer in Social Whitehouse, Whitehouse Harvey, Harvey Whitehouse
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 06.07.1995
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780198279815
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827981-5
• Pages: 248
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Tribal religions, Papua New Guinea, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal