- — Oceania:
Rise of the John Frum movement
On Tanna the John Frum cargo cult emerged, awaiting a messianic 'John from America' who would bring cargo and restore custom against missionary and colonial control.
Era: The Anglo-French Condominium
Sources: Vanuatu — History (Melanesian, Colonization, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica
Religion in the 1940s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1940s, tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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- Nations
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- Earliest
- 1940
- Latest
- 1940
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.