2014年3月5日 · Inhabitants of the remote Pacific island of Tanna built an entire religion on trash left behind by American occupiers during World War Two. To this day, the local faithful perform elaborate military-inspired rituals in which worshipers wave flags and march like GIs in hopes their god will deliver them more trade goods and supplies.

Cargo cults were diverse spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the late 19th century.

2023年3月6日 · This is the story of the famous “bamboo runway,” one of the most striking examples of Cargo Cult Thinking (or Cargo Cult Science). The islanders believed that by building a replica of the runway and mimicking the behaviours of the soldiers, they could bring back the planes and their cargo.

货物崇拜 （英文：Cargo Cults，又译货物运动）是一种宗教形式，尤其出现于一些与世隔绝的落后土著之中。 当货物崇拜者看见外来的先进科技物品，便会将之当作神祇般崇拜。

2014年3月27日 · The “pigs from heaven” that will deliver this sacred cargo are constantly invoked by cargo cult practitioners through makeshift “runways,” “control towers” and “military formations” based on what the earliest believers observed of the Americans who landed their planes on the Melanesian islands.

貨物崇拜（英語： Cargo Cults ），又譯作貨物運動，亦称作船货崇拜，是一種宗教形式，特別出現於一些與世隔絕的原住民中。 當貨物崇拜者看見外來的先進科技物品，便會將之當作 神祇 般 崇拜 。

2024年2月26日 · Anthropologists have presented a more nuanced analysis of the cargo cults by discouraging the use of the pejorative misnomer “cargo cult”. They describe the rituals as an attempt by ...

Although some one-time cargo cults have been institutionalised as indigenous churches or local political organizations and remain active, few new movements of the classic cargo sort emerged after most of the Melanesian colonies achieved national independence in the 1970s.

2017年8月19日 · Just like the South Sea natives who built primitive runways, prayed and performed rituals in the hopes that planes would come in and bring cargo, the food and supplies. Richard Feynman warned graduates at the California Institute of Technology to not fall victim to the cargo cult thinking: In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people.

2020年3月27日 · A cargo cult is a belief system in a relatively undeveloped society in which adherents practice superstitious rituals hoping to bring modern goods supplied by a more technologically advanced society. These cults, millenarian in nature, were first described in Melanesia * in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced Western cultures.