The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India : Emerging Negotiations / edited by Maguni Charan Behera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Behera, Maguni Charan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tribes--India.

Tribes.

Tribes--India--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-04-012566-2

1-003-51641-6

1-04-012545-X

9781003516415

OCLC:

1455296415