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Subject(s)

• Tribes—India [Browse]
• Tribes—India—Religion [Browse]

Editor

• Behera, Maguni Charan [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Includes index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: 'Tribal Religion' Or 'Tribe and Religions': Engaging with a Contemporary Dilemma
• Part I Contemporaneity
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 2 Religious Worldview of the Tai Ahom of Assam: Present through the Past
• Chapter 3 Beliefs, Rituals, and Taboos Among the Bakarwal of Jammu and Kashmir
• Chapter 4 Religious Life of the Kabuis of Manipur
• Chapter 5 Sorcery in Practice: A Contemporary Reading Among the Sabars of Purulia, West Bengal
• Chapter 6 To Believe or Not to Believe: A Study of the Folk Beliefs of the Nagas in the Novels of Easterine Kire
• Chapter 7 Social Dimension of Faith and Beliefs of the Oraon: Revisiting S.C. Roy
• Part II State, Tribe, and Religion
• Chapter 8 From Khambeswari to Stambheswari: The Journey of a Tribal Deity into Hindu Pantheon
• Chapter 9 In Search of Legitimacy: Tribal Rituals, Native Chiefs, and Colonial State in Orissa
• Chapter 10 Tribe, Religion, and Census of India: (From 1871 to 2011)
• Chapter 11 Interface Between the State and the Church in Mizoram: A Historico-Political Reading
• Part III Multi- and Cross-Culture Negotiation
• Chapter 12 Decolonising Tribal Religion of the Tangkhul Nagas
• Chapter 13 The Impact of Christianity on Khasi Society of Meghalaya: An Analysis on Contemporaneity
• Chapter 14 Rituals in Traditional Kuki Belief System and Their Place among Christian Kukis
• Chapter 15 Interfacing Primal Religion of the Hamai (Zeliangrong), Christianity, Heraka, and Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak.
• Part IV Shifting Religious Worldview
• Chapter 16 From Spirits to Personage: Changes in Religious Faith Among the Rathwa Adivasi of Gujarat
• Chapter 17 On the Threshold of Change: Religious Beliefs and Practices of the Bonda as Revealed in Pratibha Ray's The Primal Land
• Chapter 18 Tribal Ecoethics and Religion: A Study of Select Ecoethical Narratives from Northeast India
• Part V Conceptualising Change
• Chapter 19 Liminality: Religion of the Sahariya of Rajasthan State, India
• Chapter 20 Dandakatta Ritual in the Oraon Religion: A Symbolic Interpretation
• Chapter 21 Devgudi: Village Sacred Shrine of Chhattisgarh Now and Then
• Part VI Towards Institutionalisation
• Chapter 22 Issues of Institutionalisation and Kurichiyan Religion in the Current Socio-Political Context of Kerala
• Chapter 23 Thus Says the Supreme God: Examining the Idea of Revelation in the Tribal Movements in India
• Chapter 24 Situating Shamanism in Contemporary Tribal Religions of Arunachal Pradesh: A Case Study of the Idu Mishmi
• Part VII Politics and Tribal Religion
• Chapter 25 Tamil Folk Religion: Contemporary Dynamics
• Chapter 26 Tribal Religion and Identity Politics
• Chapter 27 'Tribal Religion is a Reality': (Furnishing of Certain Clinching Evidences from the Tribal Nilgiris)
• Chapter 28 Disrupting Classification: 'Tribes', the Demand for Recognition of a Tribal Religion, Possessed Women, and the Case of 'Demons'
• Glossary
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-04-012566-2
• 1-003-51641-6
• 1-04-012545-X

OCLC

1455296415

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