1st Edition
Constructing the Divine Religion and World View of a Naga Tribe in North-East India
By G. Kanato Chophy
Copyright 2019
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
284 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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From being characterized as ‘primitive tribe’ in the colonial imagination to become predominantly practitioners of the American Baptist faith, the Sumi Naga – formerly known as the Sema Naga – in the North-East Indian state of Nagaland have come a long way ever since this Naga tribe encountered the white man toward the latter half of the nineteenth century. This book in a way chronicles the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Problems and Methods 3. Locating the Sumi Naga 4. The Self and Other: The Fulcrum of Sumi Religious System 5. Rituals, Livelihood and World View 6. The Story from the West: Concourse of Sumi Christianity and Global Christian Narratives 7. Divinity, Ideology and Religious Behaviour 8. The Forms of Stories in Social Life 9. Conclusion
Biography
G. Kanato Chophy is a social anthropologist with a doctorate from the University of Delhi. He is a Fellow of the New India Foundation (2017-18), Bangalore.
