Pomio Kivung movement

Record summary

Kivung is a locally organized Christian-derived movement in East New Britain associated with ritual practice, ancestral communication, moral reform and expectations of transformed social conditions. Late twentieth-century anthropological work treated it as a living religious institution rather than simply a cargo cult. It may matter for comparison because its ideas combine Christian eschatology with Tolai and neighboring cosmologies. The movement’s theology, chronology and internal variations require checking against fieldwork, especially whether particular accounts describe imminent apocalypse, ancestral return or more general social renewal.