Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Continuum Advances in Religious Studies |
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Continuum advances in religious studies.
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Contents |
Circling the altar stone : Bhuban Cave and the symbolism of religious traditions -- Millenarianism and refashioning the social fabric -- Changing cosmology and the process of reform -- Negotiating boundaries -- Community imaginings and the ideal of heguangram |
Summary |
Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India. Drawing upon critical studies of 'religion', cultural/ethnic identity, and nationalism, archival research in both India and Britain, and fieldwork in Assam, the book initiates new grounds for understanding the evolving notions of 'reform' and 'identity' in the emergence of a Heraka 'religion'. Arkotong Longkumer argues that 'reform' and 'identity' are dynamically inter-related and linked to the revitalisation and n |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Zeme (Indic people) -- India -- North Cāchār Hills -- Religion
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Heraka movement.
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Group identity -- India -- North Cāchār Hills -- History -- 20th century
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Nationalism -- India -- North Cāchār Hills -- History -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Eastern.
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Group identity
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Heraka movement
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Nationalism
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India -- Dima Hasao
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2009025023 |
ISBN |
9781441186447 |
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1441186441 |
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9786612552045 |
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6612552042 |
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9781472549211 |
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147254921X |
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9781441196941 |
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1441196943 |
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9781441187345 |
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1441187340 |
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