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| Titre : | Magic and the Millenium : Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-World Peoples |
| Auteurs : | Bryan R. Wilson, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | St Albans [GB] : Paladin, 1973 |
| Format : | xi + 547 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | NI/A (Cosmogonie, mythologie, paganisme) |
| Résumé : |
In conditions of extremity, men ask themselves : “What is to be done?” “What shall we do to be saved?” Two answers are the recourse to magic, and the belief in a new world order imposed from above - a millennium. These responses to social distress are seen most vividly where Third World peoples have felt the impact of the expanding ‘civilized’ West, where they have encountered modernity and seen it either as magic or the millennium, or which, by magic or faith in a millennium, they have sought to dispel.
Yet magic does not seem to work and the millennium does not come. Using insights drawn from studies in Western Christendom, Wilson shows how changing social needs give rise to new religious responses. From Papua and Brazil, from the American Indian frontier and the West Coast of Africa come a bizarre collection of religious phenomena, men who worship cargo-bearing planes that will never arrive, sects who use peyote to bring them onto a different level of consciousness, West Indians who revere the Emperor of Ethiopia, break-away fundamentalist Christians who cut themselves completely off from their fellows. Bryan Wilson has attempted the difficult task of evolving a system for understanding these responses, and in so doing, he tells us in the modern ‘advanced’ world more about our own inner needs and ways of fulfilling them. We too have our hopes, and we too, to some extent, unless we are completely apathetic or cynical, seem to need to believe in some form of magic or millenarian redemption. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Acknowledgcments
- Introduction - 1. Sociological Analysis and the Search for Salvation: Of ‘sect’ and ‘church’; an alternative approach to new religions movements; ‘response to the world’; responses and movements. - 2. The Cultural Contexts of Religions Deviance: Western ‘sects’ and third-world ‘movements’; mutations of sectarian response; tire cultural conditions of sectarian response: conversionists, manipulationists, introversionists; sects in the mission territories; two exceptional cases; thaumaturgical responses; revolutionist responses. - 3. Miracles and the Control of Magic: Thaumaturgical movements in Papua; the incidence of witchcraft; thaumaturgy and revolutionism in Central Africa; anti-witchcraft movements; the organization of thaumaturgical movements; the Lumpa Church: the mission as organizational model. - 4. Thaumaturgical Persistence in Non-Tribal Societies Thaumaturgy in a Catholic context; possession cults in Brazil; syncretic spiritualism: Umbanda; urban magic and rural Protestantism? intellectual spiritualism; Pentecostalism reinterpreted; syncretism and thaumaturgical demand; dislocated religion and thaumaturgy; thaumaturgy and organization. - 5. Thaumaturgical Responses and Social Organization: The thaumaturge as messiah; the messianic thaumaturge among the Zulus; the thaumaturge-messiah and the surrogate tribe; thaumaturgy and the social context; transient and persisting movements; thaumaturgy as an innovative and as a restorative agency; fonctions and organization; thaumaturgy and rational organization - 6. Thaumaturgy Denominationalized: Thaumaturgical response and rational organization; the origins of institutionalized thaumaturgy; worship in the Church of the Lord (Aladura) ; the organization of the movement; the teachings of the Church of the Lord; inspiration and institutionalism; conclusion - 7. The Social Sources of Millennialism: three ambiguous cases: Three special cases: the Koreri movements, the Tupi-Guarani movements, New Guinea highland peoples; conclusion - 8. Religious Responses and Military Enterprise: The prophets of the American Indian frontier: the Delaware Prophet; Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa; militant prophets in South Africa; religion and rebellion in Central and East Africa; the Hau Hau movement; religion in the service of secular rebellion: (i) Ghilembwe; (ii) the Bambata rising; an interim analysis; Mau Mau: a special case; conclusion - 9. Collective Redemption: Militant and quiescent prophets; the restorative prophecies of Smohalla; the Ghost Dance of 1870; relative deprivation and sequences of response; the Ghost Dance of 1890; the Ghost Dance and cultural revitalization; the Ghost Dance and militant action; conclusion. - 10. Commodity Millennialism: Revolutionist religion and cultural continuities; diffusion and diversity; a spontaneous cargo cult; cargo and hysteria; the Jonfrum movement: a recrudescent cult; persisting themes and spasmodic cults; cultural continuities and discontinuities; cargo cults and Christianity; the sequence of cults. - 11. From Magic to the Millennium—and back: New patterns of thaumaturgical practice; Syncretism and shamanism among the Shakers; millennialism and thaumaturgy: sequences and alternations; thaumaturgy and the reaction of the administration; successors to Kimbangu; conclusion - 12. Intimations of Introversionist Responses: The Gai'wiio' religion of Iroquois; the successors of the Hau Hau movement; an autonomous introversionist response; conclusion. - 13. The Peyote Cult—an introversionist movement?: The beginnings of the cult: ritual, myth, and ethic; diffusion and innovation; Peyotism as an introversionist mutation; Peyotism, Christianity, and organizations ; Peyotism as introversionism? the case of the Navaho; conclusion. - 14. The Rational Mutation of Religions Responses: The institutionalization of a millennial movement; pan-Indianism: the religions contribution; religions responses and civic purposes; millennial magic and economic enterprise; Marching Rule and the Malekula Co-operative ; the Paliau movement: cult beliefs and rational action. - 15. Conclusions: Concepts and categories; from magic to the millennium; rationalization and the introversionist alternative; comparative method and some problems of explanation; epilogue. - Bibliography - Index of Authors / Index of Subjects / Index of Principal Movements, Tribes, and Persons |
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