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Confessing Christ in the Naga Context

Author : Bendangjungshi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643900715

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Confessing Christ in the Naga Context by Bendangjungshi Pdf

In this book, author Bendangjungshi brings into dialogue the three leading Northeast Indian tribal theologians - Renthy Keitzar, K. Thanzauva, and Wati Longchar - with the Western theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who suffered martyrdom under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. Negotiating between Bonhoeffer's political approach and Naga cultural identity, Bendangjungshi develops a liberating ecclesiology for Naga Christians, who have been suffering under Indian military occupation since the withdrawal of the British colonizers from Nagaland. (Series: ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology - Vol. 8)

Vocation in Christ

Author : Imliwabang Jamir
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498201261

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Vocation in Christ by Imliwabang Jamir Pdf

Karl Barth (1886-1968), as a young Swiss pastor in Safenwil, struggled to make an organic connection between "the newspaper [contemporary sociopolitical events] and the New Testament." When he discovered "a strange new world of God within the Bible," God became the subject matter for renewing and transforming the world. This discovery helped Barth to integrate the world into his interpretation of the Bible and also impacted his theology of Christian vocation as divine summons to God's special freedom and obedience. Vocation in Christ examines the theology of vocation and reading Scripture among the Naga Christians in northeastern India, in conversation with Barth's theology of vocation. Social-scientific research is employed on congregations and Bible study groups to explore how the Naga Christians understand vocation and Scripture in light of their sociopolitical and religious context. This book serves as an introduction for Western readers of how vocation is understood from an Asian perspective and emphasizes the theme of vocation as Christian witness without accommodating to worldly values. It readdresses Barth's theology of vocation, which calls for a revitalization of Christian vocation in our contemporary situation. The primary claim of this book is that vocation is God's calling to obedience, and devotion to the love of God is reciprocal to the love of neighbor.

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199093267

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In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency by Jelle J.P. Wouters Pdf

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state’s response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic underview, Jelle Wouters illustrates an ‘insurgency complex’ that reveals how embodied experiences of resistance and state aggression, violence and volatility, and struggle and suffering link together to shape social norms, animate local agitations, and complicate inter-personal and inter-tribal relations in expected and unexpected ways. The book locates the historical experiences and agency of the Naga people and relates these to ordinary villagers’ perceptions, actions, and moral reasoning vis-à-vis both the Naga Movement and the state and its lucrative resources. It thus presses us to rethink our views on tribalism, conflict and ceasefire, development, corruption, and democratic politics.

Confessing Community

Author : Taimaya Ragui
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506486789

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Confessing Community by Taimaya Ragui Pdf

This book offers an entryway to the discussion between theological interpretation of Scripture and contextual theology (i.e., tribal theology). It argues for the need to consider the importance of reading the Bible with multiple contexts in mind, while addressing the tension between church and academy in the area of biblical interpretation. Adapting from the theological method of Kevin J. Vanhoozer, it argues for a multi-contextual biblical-theological interpretation of Scripture that maintains evangelical ethos (i.e., the solas of the Reformation), recognizes canonical sense (i.e., the measuring and guiding criteria), asserts Catholic sensibility (i.e., value the contribution of the local and Catholic church), and affirms contextual sensitivity (i.e., the local/tribal confessing community). These are the contexts that enable Christians to read the Bible as what it is, namely, human and divine discourse.

Christianity in Northeast India

Author : Chongpongmeren Jamir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000057386

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Christianity in Northeast India by Chongpongmeren Jamir Pdf

This book examines the distinctive formation of Christianity in Nagaland, Northeast India, since 1947. It argues that an understanding of the history of Christianity in the region can be found in its cultural milieu and the changing political, social and religious environment. In Nagaland, almost 90 per cent of the population are Christians. This book shows that segmentation as a cultural characteristic of Naga society inspired both unity and divisiveness in the Naga churches, which subsequently shaped the beliefs and practices of the churches in the region. Using the methodology of cultural history, the author examines ecclesiastical events and suggests that the history of Christianity should be examined in the light of its interaction with its cultural context rather than as an isolated phenomenon. The book demonstrates that the ethnic status which the Christian faith assumed, the extent of its identification with the local culture, and the scope of the mission of the Naga churches as key stakeholders in society, offers a new angle on the history of Christianity in India. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, particularly those concerned with Northeast India and Christian history, historiography, cultural history, history of Christianity in India and faith–culture interface, religious studies, history and South Asian Studies.

Tribe-British Relations in India

Author : Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811634246

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Tribe-British Relations in India by Maguni Charan Behera Pdf

This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India. It analyses colonial literature, as well as cultural and relational issues of pre-literate communities. It interrogates disciplinary epistemology through multidisciplinary engagement. It presents the temporal and spatial dimensions of tribal studies. The chapters critically examine colonial ideology and administration and civilization of tribes of India. Each paper introduces a unique context of Tribe-British interactions and provides an innovative approach, theoretical foundation, analytical tool and methodological insights in the emerging discipline of tribal studies. The book is of interest to researchers and scholars engaged in topics related to tribes.

Democracy In Nagaland: Tribes, Traditions, and Tensions.

Author : A. Wati Walling,Ankush Agrawal,B. Henshet Phom,Chothazo Nienu,Dolly Kikon,Kham Khan Suan Hausing,Michael Heneise,Moamenla Amer,Renchumi Kikon Kuotsu,Riku Khutso,T. Longkoi Khiamniungan,Venusa Tinyi,Vikas Kumar
Publisher : Highlander Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780692070314

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Democracy In Nagaland: Tribes, Traditions, and Tensions. by A. Wati Walling,Ankush Agrawal,B. Henshet Phom,Chothazo Nienu,Dolly Kikon,Kham Khan Suan Hausing,Michael Heneise,Moamenla Amer,Renchumi Kikon Kuotsu,Riku Khutso,T. Longkoi Khiamniungan,Venusa Tinyi,Vikas Kumar Pdf

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the historical, cultural, and traditional inferences, inner-logic, and intricacies of democratic politics and elections in Nagaland. It goes beyond 'institutional analyses' of democratic structures and governance by looking at the troubled historical context in which modern democracy was introduced, how Nagas themselves view democracy, the reasoning they adopt as they engage in campaigns and perform elections, the remapping of traditional practices and values unto the new democrat­ ic playing field, and at the gender and 'clean elections' debates such practices evoke.

A Matter of Belief

Author : Vibha Joshi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857455956

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A Matter of Belief by Vibha Joshi Pdf

'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.

The Many Faces of Jesus Christ

Author : Küster, Volker
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339761

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The Many Faces of Jesus Christ by Küster, Volker Pdf

"Updated version of an Orbis classic"--

Christianity in South and Central Asia

Author : Kenneth R. Ross
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474439848

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Christianity in South and Central Asia by Kenneth R. Ross Pdf

This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in South and Central Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes and examines current trends.

The Gods are not Jealous

Author : Rahman Yakubu
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374071999

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The Gods are not Jealous by Rahman Yakubu Pdf

Rahman Yakubu critiques the notion that Islam and Christianity in Africa have been benevolent to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in their interreligious encounter. Rather, he argues that ATR plays an active and central role in creating a peaceful interreligious space in Africa. Using an ethnographic study of rituals in the rites of passage among Dagomba Muslims, Christians and adherents of ATR of Ghana, the author concludes that Dagomba religio-culture has influenced not only the identity of adherents of the two faiths, but also the relations between them. This book proposes that, for a constructive negotiating of religious identity and peaceful interreligious existence, Traditional Religions should be considered an equal partner in interreligious dialogue.

Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India

Author : Jobymon Skaria
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755642373

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Dalit Theology, Boundary Crossings and Liberation in India by Jobymon Skaria Pdf

Jobymon Skaria, an Indian St Thomas Christian Scholar, offers a critique of Indian Christian theology and suggests that constructive dialogues between Biblical and dissenting Dalit voices – such as Chokhamela, Karmamela, Ravidas, Kabir, Nandanar and Narayana Guru – could set right the imbalance within Dalit theology, and could establish dialogical partnerships between Dalit Theologians, non-Dalit Christians and Syrian Christians. Drawing on Biblical and socio-historical resources, this book examines a radical, yet overlooked aspect of Dalit cultural and religious history which would empower the Dalits in their everyday existences.

Resisting Occupation

Author : Miguel A. De La Torre,Mitri Raheb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978711389

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Resisting Occupation by Miguel A. De La Torre,Mitri Raheb Pdf

In Resisting Occupation, international scholars discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed by occupiers to justify their actions, perpetuate exploitation, and domesticate indigenous landholders. In the name of Christianization and civilization, which has proven to be a global phenomenon beyond time and space, a consistent domestication process is established. The colonized are taught to want, to yearn for, and to embrace their occupation, seeing themselves through the eyes of their colonizers. Writing from different spots around the globe, the scholars of this book demonstrate how occupation, a synonym for empire, is manifested within their social context and reveal unity in their struggle for liberation. Recognizing that where there is oppression, there is resistance, the contributors turn to religion. While questioning the logic, rationale, theology, and epistemology of the empire’s religion, they nonetheless seek the liberative response of resistance – at times using the very religion of the occupiers.

The Holy Spirit and Christian Mission

Author : Roji T. George
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532693083

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The Holy Spirit and Christian Mission by Roji T. George Pdf

This is a collection of articles from various church backgrounds and theological viewpoints. It reaffirms the necessity and urgency of a pneumatic missiology. It does not speak of God’s saving mission as originating simply from God; it highlights the central role of the Spirit in the effective mission of the church.

Women in Naga Society

Author : Lucy Zehol
Publisher : Regency Publications (India)
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Naga (South Asian people)
ISBN : UOM:39015043273260

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Women in Naga Society by Lucy Zehol Pdf

Collection of papers presented at a seminar.