Vailala Movement
Oceanian & Circumpolar New religious movement
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Neutral catalog summary
About this record
Vailala Movement is cataloged as a New religious movement within Oceanian & Circumpolar. Its candidate country context is “Papua New Guinea” and its period or origin is “Circa 1919–1930s.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Papuan anti-colonial and millenarian religious movements.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Vailala Movement; Vailala Madness (deprecated colonial label)
- Parent tradition
- Papuan anti-colonial and millenarian religious movements
- Public geographic context
- Papua New Guinea
- Period / origin
- Circa 1919–1930s
- Living / historical status
- Historical/defunct as named
- Access / protocol
- Scholarly / historical only
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidatePapua New Guinea
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
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Cite this record
Vailala Movement. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 0694. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/0694
Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA · https://x.com/KJB_and_AYARA