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Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging - The Heraka Movement in Northeast India (Paperback, NIPPOD)
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Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging - The Heraka Movement in Northeast India (Paperback, NIPPOD)
Series: Continuum Advances in Religious Studies
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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 negotiation of both 'tradition'
legitimising indigeneity, and 'change' legitimising reform. The
results have deepened, yet challenged, not only prevailing views of
the Western construction of the category 'religion' but also
understandings of how marginalised communities use collective
historical imagination to inspire self-identification through the
discourse of religion. In conclusion, this book argues for a
re-evaluation of the way in which multi-religious traditions
interact to reshape identities and belongings.
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