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Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea by Harvey Whitehouse

Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea

Harvey Whitehouse

234 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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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 autho...

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