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Naga Christianity: The Baptists in the formative years, 1838-1915.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Naga Christianity: The Baptists in the formative years, 1838-1915./
Author:	Lorin, Joshua.
Description:	363 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-11A(E).
Subject:	Religious history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3629580
ISBN:	9781321067163

Naga Christianity: The Baptists in the formative years, 1838-1915.
Lorin, Joshua.

Naga Christianity: The Baptists in the formative years, 1838-1915. - 363 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fuller Theological Seminary, Center for Advanced Theological Study, 2014.

This dissertation explores indigenous expansion of faith through local leaderships and support agencies in the formative years of Naga Christianity, 1838-1915. It is based on works initiated at four centers, viz., Namsang, Impur, Kohima, and Wokha by the Baptist missionaries from America. Our research is an historical work that carefully and systematically connects events and themes to show that "self-propagation" and "self-support" was a dominant motif of Naga Christianity. In the process of this historical inquiry, we investigated key aspects of the development of the literature and education, and the interplay of colonial politics and mission in the Naga Hills. Though peripheral to the story, mission controversies and dissensions, enabled us to take a closer look into the critical elements that went into the foundation of Naga Christianity.

ISBN: 9781321067163Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122824
Religious history.

Naga Christianity: The Baptists in the formative years, 1838-1915.
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520 $a We argue that though the missionaries espoused the principle of self-support, it was the innate Naga qualities such as self-reliance, altruism, and independent spirit, among all else, which contributed to this success story of Christian faith. Despite slow growth in the period under review (1838-1840; 1872-1915), "indigeneity" was the modus operandi early on; it persisted and in time became well established. Beginning with the Nagas from Namsang in the 1830s, active native participation was prominent, and by the first decade of the twentieth century, the native people had assumed the sponsorship of virtually all churches and schools, at least, in the case of the Ao Nagas.
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