Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology),Used

Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology),Used

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For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing 'cargo.' The author of this book, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated ancestor, and was able to observe the dynamics of the cult from within. From the stable mainstream of the cult, localized splinter groups periodically emerge, hoping to expedite the millennium; the core of this volume concerns the close study of one such group in two Baining villages.The two aspects of the cult studied hereon the one hand a large, uniform, and stable mainstream organization with a welldefined hierarchy demanding orthodoxy of views, and on the other hand a smallscale and temporary movement, emotional and innovatieve in its viewsstand in sharp contrast one to the other, but are here seen as divergent manifestations of the same relifious ideology, implemented in differeing ways. This original theory of 'modes of religiosity' which Whitehouse develops draws on recent findings in cognitive psychology to link styles of codification and cultural transmission to the political scale, structure, and ethos of religious communities.

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