Most of the cargo cults disappeared during the post-war decades, but the John Frum Movement lives on in Tanna. Cult members worship Frum, a messiah with changeable characteristics. To some ...

The Tom Navy cargo cult is similar to John Frum in that it ... where followers gathered in worship every Friday. He said: ‘They pretty much have their own village at the base of the volcano.

Tannese Islanders belonging to the John Frum Movement The US's standing in the world may have plummeted under President George W Bush, but a bizarre cargo cult in the Vanuatu island nation holds ...

The islanders had never seen such a bounty and even after the cessation of hostilities, continued to worship the "cargo cult" in the belief that the gods would again deliver the bounty they so ...

By Daisey's account they are the last surviving practitioners of a cargo cult, so named because its adherents believed that through worship they could attain the material goods of the missionaries ...

Reading about this year’s party made me think of cargo cults in general, and one in particular that I joined for a little while. Cargo cults worship manufactured goods. "During (World War II) (the ...

Daisey took his journey to the South Pacific island of Tanna because he was fascinated by the people there who practice a related form of worship: the cargo cult. Cargo cults began in the South ...

Villagers believe that their messiah was responsible for delivering to them the munificence of the US military. Uniforms and medals are worn to encourage John Frum to return They were awestruck by the ...