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Inside the Cult - Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Paperback, New Ed)
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Inside the Cult - Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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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 here--on the one hand a large,
uniform, and stable mainstream organization with a well-defined
hierarchy demanding orthodoxy of views, and on the other hand a
small-scale and temporary movement, emotional and innovatieve in
its views--stand in sharp contrast one to the other, but are here
seen as divergent manifestations of the same relifious ideology,
implemented in differing 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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