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A Matter of Belief

Christian Conversion and Healing in Northeast India

  • Hardback
  • 356 pages
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 15.9 x 23.5 x 2.1 cm

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For students of mission and cultural studies

Unpacks how healing beliefs shape Naga Christianity

Gain deeper insight into religious identity today

Discover how the Angami Naga people navigate the complex interplay between Christian faith and indigenous healing traditions.

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"Nagaland for Christ" and "Jesus Saves" are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, northeastern India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity that belies the underlying tensions and negotiations between Christian and non-Christian Naga. This religious division is intertwined with that of healing beliefs and practices, both animistic and biomedical. This study focuses on the particular experiences of the Angami Naga, one of the many Naga peoples. Like other Naga, they are citizens of the state of India but extend ethnolinguistically into Tibeto-Burman southeast Asia. This ambiguity and how it affects their Christianity, global involvement, indigenous cultural assertiveness, and nationalist struggle is explored. Not simply describing continuity through change, this study reveals the alternating Christian and non-Christian streams of discourse, one masking the other but at different times and in different guises.
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  • Title

    A Matter of Belief

  • Author

    Vibha Joshi

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Edition

    New ed.

  • Weight

    562g

  • Page Count

    356

  • Dimensions

    15.9 x 23.5 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780857455956

  • ISBN-10

    0857455958

  • Eden Code

    4033738

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