Speculating on the Eschaton

Comments on Harvey Whitehouse's Inside the Cult and The Two Modes of Religiosity Theory

Bibliographic Data

ID11620161
AuthorsGregory D Alles (0000-0001-8788-8767, corresponding author), Gregory Alles
Year2004
Volume16
Issue3
Pages266-291
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMethod & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1570068042652329
OpenAlexW2067085060
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited40

SPECULATING ON THE ESCHATON: COMMENTS ON HARVEY WHITEHOUSE’S INSIDE THE CULT AND THE TWO MODES OF RELIGIOSITY THEORY 1 G  D. A  Inside the Cult (Whitehouse 1995) is a wonderful book in at least two respects. The fi rst seven chapters present an engaging ethnographic narrative of an eschatological movement that took place among mem- bers of a religious community in Papua New Guinea known as the Pomio Kivung. The eighth chapter then seeks to explain signi fi cant features of that movement by formulating a vigorous and ambitious theory of two modes of religiosity, which Whitehouse calls

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