The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India

Emerging Negotiations
Herausgeber: Behera, Maguni Charan

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Produktbeschreibung

Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life. This handbook explores rituals, beliefs, liturgy, knowledge and traditions that tribal people practice today and traces the history of their interaction with other religions, communities and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781032522135
• ISBN-10: 1032522135
• Artikelnr.: 70359564

Autorenporträt

Maguni Charan Behera was a former Professor of Tribal Studies at Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi (Central) University, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Behera was also a Professor of Indigenous Culture Studies and Dean School of Cultural Studies, Central University of Jharkhand. He has been working on tribes for about 40 years. His present interest is to develop tribal studies as an academic discipline and in this direction he is editing books on different themes from multidisciplinary perspectives. He has the credit of introducing tribal studies as an undergraduate course of Rajiv Gandhi University under distance mode.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Contemporaneity 1. Religion, Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions
among the Denotified/ Nomadic Tribes: A Case Study of Waddars and Yerukulas
in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States 2. Traditional Religious Worldview
of the Tai Ahom of Assam and its present status 3. Beliefs, Rituals, and
Taboos among the Bakarwal of Jammu and Kashmir 4. Religious Life of the
Kabuis of Manipur 5. Sorcery in Practice: Contemporary Reading among the
Sabar of Purulia, West Bengal 6. To Believe or Not to Believe: A Study of
the Folk Beliefs of the Nagas in the novels of Easterine Kire 7. Social
Dimension of Faith and Beliefs of the Oraon: Revisiting S. C. Roy Part II:
State, Tribe and Religion 8. From Khambesvari to Stambhesvari: The Journey
of a Tribal Deity into Hindu Pantheon 9. In Search of Legitimacy: Tribal
rituals, Native chiefs, and Colonial rule of Law in Orissa 10. Tribe,
Religion and Census of India (From 1871 to 2011) 11. Interface Between the
State and the Church in Mizoram: A Historico-Political Reading Part III:
Multi-and Cross-Culture Negotiation 12. Decolonizing Tribal Religion of the
Tangkhul Nagas 13. The Impact of Christianity on Khasi Society of
Meghalaya: An Analysis on Contemporaneity 14. Rituals in Traditional Kuki
Belief System and their place among Christian Kukis 15. Interfacing Primal
Religion of the Hamai (Zeliangrong), Christianity, Heraka, and Tingkao
Ragwang Chapriak Part IV: Shifting Religious Worldview 16. From Spirits to
Personage: Changes in religious faith among the Rathwa Adivasi of Gujarat
17. On the Threshold of Change: Religious Beliefs and Practices of the
Bonda as Revealed in Pratibha Ray's The Primal Land 18. Tribal Ecoethics
and Religion: A Study of Select Ecoethical Narratives from Northeast India
Part V: Conceptualising Change 19. Liminality: Religion of the Sahariya of
Rajasthan State, India 20. Dynamics of Dandakatta Ritual in the Oraon
Religion: A Symbolic Interpretation 21. Devgudi: Village Sacred Shrine of
Chhattisgarh now and then Part VI: Towards Institutionalisation 22. Issues
of Institutionalisation and Kurichiyan religion in the current
socio-political context of Kerala 23. Thus says the Supreme God: Examining
the Idea of Revelation in the Tribal Movements in India 24. Situating
Shamanism in Contemporary Tribal Religions of Arunachal Pradesh: A Case
Study of the Idu Mishmi Part VII: Politics and Tribal Religion 25. Tamil
Folk Religion: Contemporary Dynamics 26. Tribal Religion and Identity
Politics 27. "Tribal Religion is a Reality" (Furnishing of Certain
Clinching Evidences from the Tribal Nilgiris) 28. Disrupting
Classification: 'Tribes', the Demand for Recognition of a Tribal Religion,
Possessed Women, and the Case of 'Demons'