NOUN
- a religious cult that anticipates a time of joy, serenity, and justice when salvation comes
- (Melanesia) the followers of one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners; some ascribe divine attributes to westerners on first contact (especially to missionaries)
How To Use cargo cult In A Sentence
- These so-called cargo cults became bizarre, microcosmic societies that survived almost entirely on hopes and dreams that might never be realized.
- The script has an interesting subtext, too - that these poor people are completely incapable of helping themselves and are utterly dependent on the Great White Gods coming across the sea - a kind of latterday Cargo Cult mentality projected onto the inhabitants of Indonesia and Sri Lanka by BBC correspondents who on a conscious level would reject racist stereotyping as something that only the Evil Right do. Archive 2004-12-26
- He had been a cobbler, but the building was now a shop selling storage chests and suitcases called The Cargo Cult.
- These so-called cargo cults became bizarre, microcosmic societies that survived almost entirely on hopes and dreams that might never be realized.
- Lovecraft's story brilliantly inverts the colonialist understanding of the Cargo Cult by demonstrating that the Other the non-white, the "Kanak," the foreign is the far more sophisticated myth, one with a better claim both on the past and the future than white Massachusetts Protestant Christianity. Kenneth Hite's Journal
