| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Continuum Advances in Religious Studies
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Continuum advances in religious studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Zeme (Indic people) -- India -- North Cāchār Hills -- Religion.
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Zeme (Indic people) |
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India -- Dima Hasao. |
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Religion. |
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Heraka movement.
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Heraka movement. |
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Group identity -- India -- North Cāchār Hills -- History -- 20th century.
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Group identity. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- India -- North Cāchār Hills -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Longkumer, Arkotong. Reform, identity and narratives of belonging. London ; New York : Continuum, 2010 9780826439703 (DLC) 2009025023 (OCoLC)423388246 |
| ISBN |
9781441186447 (electronic book) |
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1441186441 (electronic book) |
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9780826439703 |
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0826439705 |
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