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Harvey Whitehouse
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'Inside the Cult'
For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing `cargo'. The author, H
'Inheritance'
Homo sapiens is the unnatural ape. For countless millennia, evolution has shaped our behaviour. And for countless millennia, that behaviour has reshaped the world: building sprawling cities, global faiths, nation states. Nature made humanity, and humanity
'The Ritual Animal'
A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such a
'Modes of Religiosity'
Religions-whatever else they may be-are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religion