The millennium, not the cargo?

This article compares ideas about the coming millennium in two culturally d ifferent parts of Papua New Guinea: Sek in Madang Province and Kasap in Eng a Province. In both areas the Catholic church is historically predominant. Concerns and questions about whether the millennium will be marked by Chris t's Second Coming are expressed with equal fervency in both areas, and ther e has been a transformation from more materialistic interests in cargo to m ore spiritual hopes of a "good time" that may follow the millennium. In bot h areas religious news continues to predominate as ways of looking at the w orld.