Rua and the Maori millennium
By: Peter Webster.
Publisher: Price Milburn for Victoria University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Kenana, Rua, 1869-1937.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- Religion.; Millennialism -- History.
Description: "In the heart of the Urewera ranges in the North Island of New Zealand, there is a great clearing in the forest, and scattered over it the empty houses of a departed people ... these are remains of the once thriving Maori settlement of Maungapohatu. Here, at the beginning of this century, the prophet Rua Kenana led his people to found a New Jerusalem in the wildnerness. In the shadow of a sacred mountain, over a thousand of Rua's followers sought to escape the European settlers and live free from the domination of an alien race."--Jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 308-321.
Includes index.