Sentence examples for cargo cult from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of several unorthodox religious movements among the people of Melanesia based upon Western manufactured goods.
This book is reciprocal: cargo cult, meet cargo cult.
The ploy suggests a cargo cult, setting out lures for prospective benefactors.
Vailala Madness, cargo cult of the Papua area (now Papua New Guinea) that began in 1919.
And that would mean the disintegration of a religion, the collapse of the local cargo cult.
We've become the pop equivalent of a cargo cult confusing planes with the goods they brought.
One afternoon, we walked to a village where the people are members of a cargo cult.
BLONDE REDHEAD -- Blonde Redhead is a cargo cult of a band.
In the article "Prototyping: Generating ideas or Cargo Cult Designs," the author discussed the dilemma and limitation of prototyping.
Modern UFO cults, many of which have strong millennial elements, represent a kind of postmodern cargo cult.
…inspired the transformation of the Jon (or John Frumm cargo cult on Tanna into an important anti-European political movement.
