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Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements : Transoceanic Comparisons of New Religious Movements / ed. by G. W. Trompf. - Reprint 2012 - 1 online resource (456 p.) - Religion and Society , 29 1437-5370 ; .

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Plates -- List of Figures. List of maps -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- The Pacific Circle -- Chapter One. The Cargo and the Millennium on both sides of the Pacific -- White America and the Western World -- Chapter Two. The Americanization of Adam -- Chapter Three. Esoteric Adventism: three esoteric Christian Adventist Movements of the first half of the Twentieth Century -- Melanesia and Eastern Indonesia -- Chapter Four. Journeys of Transformation: the Discovery and Disclosure of Cosmic Secrets in Melanesia -- Chapter Five. The Cultivation of Surprise and Excess -- Chapter Six. Knowledge of Cargo, Knowledge of Cult: Truth and Power on Tanna, Vanuatu -- Chapter Seven. Spirit Movements in Timor -- Black America and Africa -- Chapter Eight. One Love – One Heart – One Destiny -- Chapter Nine. The Black Muslims in American Society: from Millenarian Protest to Trans-Continental Relationships -- Chapter Ten. On Wearing the Victor’s Uniforms and Replacing their Churches -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- 457-458

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9783110121667 9783110874419

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110874419 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adventists--Comparative studies.
Cargo cults.
Millennialism--Comparative studies.
Nativistic movements--Comparative studies.
Freikirche
Sekte
Kirchengeschichte
Chiliasmus
RELIGION / Religion & Science.

LC Class. No.: BL2620.M4 / C37 1990eb

Dewey Class. No.: 291/.046