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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 |
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