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Vibha Joshi - Matter of Belief - 9780857455956 - V9780857455956
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Matter of Belief

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Description for Matter of Belief Hardback. "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.. Num Pages: 356 pages, 36 ills, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRCS; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.

‘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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857455956
SKU
V9780857455956
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Vibha Joshi
Vibha Joshi was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, from 2009–11 and is presently a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, where she gained her doctorate in social anthropology. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Nagaland, northeastern India, since 1985.

Reviews for Matter of Belief
“The book is clearly written and well researched, and offers a wealth of extremely interesting information on religion and ethnomedicine…This would be a good selection for collections focused on religion and ethnography or on traditional/indigenous healing systems in the contemporary era.”  ·  Choice “This is a book that deserves to be read widely by students of indigenous medicine ... Read more

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