Maasina Ruru movement and postwar millenarian expectations

Record summary

Maasina Ruru was a major Solomon Islands movement combining indigenous political organization, Christian language, customary authority and expectations of collective renewal. Although its main historical episode occurred during and after the Second World War, later scholarship and oral-history work continued to analyze its prophetic and millenarian dimensions. It offers a comparison with apocalyptic journeys because salvation was often imagined as a transformation of community and colonial order rather than a private vision. The exact roles of prophets, ancestral power and Christian eschatology vary by island and source.