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

	List of Figures
	List of Maps
	List of Tables
	Introduction	1
	The Problem	3
	Orientation	6
1	The Cultural and Historical Setting	8
	Baining Dances	13
	Mali Baining History	22
2	The Pomio Kivung Movement	41
	Institutional Framework of the Pomio Kivung	47
	External Relations	58
3	Routinization	65
	Temple Rituals	66
	Garden Rituals and Collective Donations	79
	Community Meetings	80
	Routinization, Cognition, and Politics	83
4	Transformation and the Remembrance of Things Past	89
	Possession, Myth, and Reincarnation	90
	The Legitimation of Emergent Ideas: (1) The Reports	98
	The Legitimation of Emergent Ideas: (2) Collective Ritual	101
	Assuaging Fear: Kolman and the Competition Metaphor	108
	Further Institutional Innovation: The Ring	110
	The Pressure for Progress	114
	The Transformation of Mainstream Institutions	119
	The Remembrance of Things Past	122
5	Climactic Ritual	129
	Transforming External Relations	131
	The Preparation Ceremony	137
	The Mass Marriage and other Tactical Innovations	140
	The Period of the Vigils	143
	Climactic Ritual, Leadership, and Political Scale	149
6	The Aftermath	155
	The Inadequacy of the Food Supply	161
	Confrontation	162
	The Death of Ribari	168
	The Cash-Cropping Drive	169
	The Aftermath and Religious Experience	172
7	Religious Persuasion	174
	The Pursuit of Wisdom	175
	Old Religions, New Religions	178
	Leadership, Spread, and Endurance	182
	Variable Commitment and Abstention	185
	Opposition	190
8	Codification, Transmission, and Politics	193
	Modes of Religiosity	194
	The Relationship between Millenarism and Nationalism	200
	Dichotomous Representations of Religious Phenomena	203
	The Interpretation of Religion	217
	Bibliography	222
	Glossary	228
	Index	229