1st Edition
Progress and Its Impact on the Nagas A Clash of Worldviews
By Tezenlo Thong
Copyright 2014
216 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
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The term ’progress’ is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to harness nature in order to increase human beings’ ease and comfort. With the advent of Western colonization and to the great detriment of the... Read more
Introduction
1 The Notion of Progress in Perspective
2 The Notion of Progress – Its Application and Ramifications
3 The British Colonization of the Nagas
4 The American Missionization of the Nagas
5 Colonial Portrait and the Colonizing of the Mind
6 The Notion of Progress and Contemporary Nagas
Conclusion: The Future Lies in the Past
Biography
Tezenlo Thong received his PhD degree in Religious and Theological Studies from the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology. His academic interests include indigenous cultures and religious traditions and colonization, proselytization and their impact on cultures at the periphery.
