\“Te Kooti Arikirangi was a leader of armed resistance to the\ncolonial government of New Zealand and later the founder of the\nRingatu Church, to which approximately 8,000 New Zealand Maori (2%)\nnominally belong…. [This] book has salvaged a fragment of unique\nculture from rapidly gathering obscurity. It is one of the few\nworks on Maori syncretic religion to rest on oral tradition, and\nnone other is written with such empathy.\” –Journal of World\nHistory, Spring 2000

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