AN237 Lecture 11: An237 less 11
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An237 less 11: christianity also began from local cults. Cargo cult interpretations: they have taken a lot of the basic christian beliefs and drawn upon these, like a. Mesiah coming (they were christians before this: jarvie: they are simply operating under their system of knowledge and it"s completely rational. They know rituals and how they work and don"t know about modern technology: given their level of knowledge, it"s rational. The political aspect is more important than the religious: lindstrom: tourists are bringing the cargo, tanese believe it"s childish (their grandparents believed in it but since they have gone to university, they don"t want to) New religious movements: when religions originate, they are appropriate for the times (the context in which they arise). All the movements discussed above are appropriate for the period. Intro: all cultures are concerned with people in their societies getting sick. So all societies have theories about why people get sick.
