The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India: Emerging Negotiations [Hardcover]

Part I: Contemporaneity 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 2. Traditional Religious Worldview of the Tai Ahom of Assam and its present status 3. Beliefs, Rituals, and Taboos among the Bakarwal of Jammu and Kashmir 4. Religious Life of the Kabuis of Manipur 5. Sorcery in Practice:? Contemporary Reading among the Sabar of Purulia, West Bengal 6. To Believe or Not to Believe: A Study of the Folk Beliefs of the Nagas in the novels of Easterine Kire 7. Social Dimension of Faith and Beliefs of the Oraon: Revisiting S. C. Roy Part II: State, Tribe and Religion 8. From Khambesvari to Stambhesvari: The Journey of a Tribal Deity into Hindu Pantheon 9. In Search of Legitimacy: Tribal rituals, Native chiefs, and Colonial rule of Law in Orissa 10. Tribe, Religion and Census of India (From 1871 to 2011) 11. Interface Between ?the State and ?the Church in Mizoram: A Historico-Political Reading Part III: Multi-and Cross-Culture Negotiation 12. Decolonizing Tribal Religion of the Tangkhul Nagas 13. The Impact of Christianity on Khasi Society of Meghalaya: An Analysis on Contemporaneity 14. Rituals in Traditional Kuki Belief System and their place among Christian Kukis 15. Interfacing Primal Religion of the Hamai (Zeliangrong), Christianity, Heraka, and Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak Part IV: Shifting Religious Worldview 16.