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Author Joshi, Vibha, author.

Title A matter of belief : Christian conversion and healing in north-east India / Vibha Joshi
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents A mountainous state -- Classifying spirit and sickness -- Religion of practice -- Traditional healers -- A brief history of Christian evangelisation -- In the Naga Hills -- Contemporary Christianity and the healing spirit -- Church and healing
Summary ""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 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." -- Publisher's Description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Christianity -- India -- Nāgāland
Spiritual healing -- India -- Nāgāland
Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- India -- Nāgāland
Christianity.
Spiritual healing.
Christianity
Spiritual Therapies
Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Spiritual healing
SUBJECT Nāgāland (India) -- Church history
India
Subject India -- Nāgāland
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012013683
ISBN 9780857456731
0857456733
1283655624
9781283655620
Other Titles Christian conversion and healing in north-east India