TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joshi,Vibha
TI  - A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India 
SN  - 9780857455956
AV  - BR1156.N33 J67 2012
U1  - 275.4/165083 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - India
KW  - Nāgāland
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Healing
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Spiritual healing
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND DIAGRAMS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; GLOSSARY --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION Christianity and the Struggle for Well-being --; Chapter 1 A MOUNTAINOUS STATE --; Chapter 2 CLASSIFYING SPIRIT AND SICKNESS --; Chapter 3 RELIGION OF PRACTICE --; Chapter 4 TRADITIONAL HEALERS --; Chapter 5 A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN EVANGELIZATION IN THE NAGA HILLS --; Chapter 6 CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY AND THE HEALING SPIRIT --; Chapter 7 CHURCH AND HEALING --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX 1 Bibliographical Essay --; APPENDIX 2 Inscription on the Stone Tablet in Upper Chajouba Village --; APPENDIX 3 Angami Calendar (khrü phrü) --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - ‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east 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 south-east 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857456731
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857456731
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857456731/original
ER  -