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Imsong, Imkong I.

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The role of land in ethnic Naga identity: Exploring a contextual Naga Christian theology and social ethics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of land in ethnic Naga identity: Exploring a contextual Naga Christian theology and social ethics./
Author:	Imsong, Imkong I.
Description:	326 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John Hart.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3257103

The role of land in ethnic Naga identity: Exploring a contextual Naga Christian theology and social ethics.
Imsong, Imkong I.

The role of land in ethnic Naga identity: Exploring a contextual Naga Christian theology and social ethics. - 326 p.

Adviser: John Hart.

Thesis (Th.D.)--Boston University School of Theology, 2007.

The proposed outcome of this work is the construction of a way of ethnic Naga identity formation that centers on a renewed conscious of the interrelatedness of God-Land-People, and retrieves, reaffirms, and renews Naga community life.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The role of land in ethnic Naga identity: Exploring a contextual Naga Christian theology and social ethics.
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520 $a The proposed outcome of this work is the construction of a way of ethnic Naga identity formation that centers on a renewed conscious of the interrelatedness of God-Land-People, and retrieves, reaffirms, and renews Naga community life.
520 $a Traditionally, an ethnic Naga communal identity has been shaped by Naga religious understandings related to the Naga concept of land in a triune relationship: God-Land-People. The Naga traditional ethos based on this relationship which is communitarian, wholesome, and liberating, can be a viable starting point for the development of a Naga Christian theology and social ethics.
520 $a The Naga people in northeastern India face an identity crisis. A cultural and ethnic minority that has incorporated elements of Christianity, Nagas are trying to affirm their traditions in the face of pressures from the Hindu majority, from various would-be colonizers, and from evangelists, all of whom have tried to mold the Naga people into a different culture.
520 $a The work begins with descriptions of community ownership of land, ethnic identity, and the Naga understanding of humans as socio-ecological beings. There follows a brief description of the Naga people, their location, and the crises confronting them, such as inter- and intra-ethnic conflicts.
520 $a A Christian social ethical analysis follows, in which the Indo-Naga relationship is reviewed. The Naga people's assertion of their distinctive cultural identity is shown to be their attempt to resist the Hindu religious, ethnic, and political majority's effort to eradicate the distinctiveness of the ethnic Naga and to merge the Naga culture into the Hindu caste-hierarchy.
520 $a There follows then an analysis of the impacts on Naga culture by the dynamic historical contexts of the British colonization and subsequent American Baptist evangelization efforts, which resulted in a transformation of the ethnic-Naga-identity to a modern nation-state at the political, structural, and religious-moral levels.
520 $a Using a narrative and interpretive method, the present work examines Naga folktales, which reveal a deep spiritual connection to the land, and include the people's territorial understanding of identity, as well as their consciousness of place as sacred space. There follows, within a hermeneutical process of selective rejection, adoption, and transformation, various theological themes, and a norm of a theology based on "God-Land-People" from the traditional Naga ethos. The work concludes with suggestions for the construction of a Naga Christian theology and social ethics of ethnic identity.
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