Tag Archives: Philleo Nash

millenarian: deprivation madness

In times of stress, look for the Prophets of an earthly paradise. Is America ready for its own millennial cult? The United States today is plainly in what Anthony F.C. Wallace termed the period of cultural distortion. Statistics do show … Continue reading

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cargo cult: the steady state

The millenarian movement, and its stages that apply virtually without exception to those throughout history and around the world was first most artfully articulated Anthony F.C. Wallace who found that movements “always originate in situations of social and cultural stress … Continue reading

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cargo cult: trek with the millenarian movement

Cargo cults. In times of stress, look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. A sense of deprivation gives birth to the cult. Its driving force: religious fervor and the superhuman agency. Its end: the destruction of the cult or … Continue reading

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cargo : short cut to the supernatural

Cargo cults. In times of stress look to the prophets of an earthly paradise… A question naturally arises in any examination of millenarian movements: why do they inevitably take a religious form instead of simple military or political resistance? The … Continue reading

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Cargo cults: direct link to the supernatural

The cargo cultsĀ  clearly support the deprivation theory- but they give an oversimplified view of the kind of deprivation involved in millenarian movements. Not all deprivation experiences are concerned with material goods alone. A person can also be deprived of … Continue reading

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cargo cult: the manna is comin’

Ghost dances and cargo cults. In times of stress turn to the prophets who always appear at precisely those moments. And there has been no shortage over the course of men, women and children suffering and in dire need of … Continue reading

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deprivation theory: secret of the cargo

Cargo cults. In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. Is America ready for its own millennial cult… The deprivation theory is most clearly illustrated by the cargo cults of Melanesia, which to our eyes seem … Continue reading

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cargo cult: ghost dancing with the deprivation theory

Ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise… How are we to explain such seemingly diverse movements as those of the Jewish Zealots and the early Christians, the Maoris of New Zealand, … Continue reading

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