Rua and the Maori Millennium
- ISBN-10
- 0705506959
- ISBN-13
- 9780705506953
- Category
- Religion / Eschatology
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Price Milburn for Victoria University Press
- Author
- Peter Webster
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.
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