"The Reverberative Nature of the Global Network of Christianity: The Naga of North East India" seminar by Dr. Vibha Joshi at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 27th March 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on 'The Reverberative Nature of the Global Network of Christianity: The Naga of North East India' by Dr. Vibha Joshi, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.
Abstract : The talk will focus on global networks of religion with special reference to Christianity in Nagaland, northeast India, especially the efforts of the Church to bring a peaceful solution to the protracted Naga national movement for independence from India and to heal the conflict-ridden society. It seeks to produce a comparative framework for studying similar processes and attempts at reconciliation elsewhere, in which international sources of influence are intrinsic to local peoples’ political religiosity and their wider religious understanding.
A common feature of postcolonial globalism is the way in which Christianity, having been imported into subject areas under colonialism, has in recent decades been exported back to the original donor societies. This reverberative feature of the Christian global network is a kind of ecumene in Hannerz’s terms, though less of a generalized ‘culture’ and more of locally varying beliefs and practices connected to each other across the world by being identified as Christian. A further tendency also found elsewhere in the world, for instance southern Africa, is for Naga Christians to see their role as healers not just of individual bodies but of the community as a whole. They seek ‘reconciliation’ between combatant groups and try to heal the wounds of war. This is quite unlike the role of early Christian missions (American Baptist) which targeted key individuals for conversion and tried to spread the gospel of ‘peace and love’ in a community by using such converts as religious examples and leaders. Put briefly, while the individual was the starting point then, the community is so now.
The research develops out of and builds on earlier research which is now the subject of a forthcoming book ‘A matter of Belief: Christianity and Healing in Northeastern India’ (Berghahn, NY and Oxford).
Speaker : Dr. Vibha Joshi joined the Institute as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in November, 2009. She obtained her D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in 2002. Her doctoral thesis was about interaction between Christian and non-Christian Angami Naga with special reference to traditional healing practices. She has worked with the Naga since 1985 and has conducted several projects that also include research on Naga material culture and museum collections in northeastern India and elsewhere which was funded by the British Academy, London and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York. Her main interests are on the effects of religious change and colonial experience on the present day global networks of Naga Christianity, including their social organisation and material culture. She recently guest-curated a major exhibition on the Naga at the Museum der Kulturen Basel.
She has co-edited, Naga: A Forgotten Mountain Region Rediscovered, in 2008 and The Land of the Nagas, in 2004. ‘Christianity and Healing: The Angami Naga of Northeastern India’ is her forthcoming title.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on 'The Reverberative Nature of the Global Network of Christianity: The Naga of North East India' by Dr. Vibha Joshi, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.
Abstract : The talk will focus on global networks of religion with special reference to Christianity in Nagaland, northeast India, especially the efforts of the Church to bring a peaceful solution to the protracted Naga national movement for independence from India and to heal the conflict-ridden society. It seeks to produce a comparative framework for studying similar processes and attempts at reconciliation elsewhere, in which international sources of influence are intrinsic to local peoples’ political religiosity and their wider religious understanding.
A common feature of postcolonial globalism is the way in which Christianity, having been imported into subject areas under colonialism, has in recent decades been exported back to the original donor societies. This reverberative feature of the Christian global network is a kind of ecumene in Hannerz’s terms, though less of a generalized ‘culture’ and more of locally varying beliefs and practices connected to each other across the world by being identified as Christian. A further tendency also found elsewhere in the world, for instance southern Africa, is for Naga Christians to see their role as healers not just of individual bodies but of the community as a whole. They seek ‘reconciliation’ between combatant groups and try to heal the wounds of war. This is quite unlike the role of early Christian missions (American Baptist) which targeted key individuals for conversion and tried to spread the gospel of ‘peace and love’ in a community by using such converts as religious examples and leaders. Put briefly, while the individual was the starting point then, the community is so now.
The research develops out of and builds on earlier research which is now the subject of a forthcoming book ‘A matter of Belief: Christianity and Healing in Northeastern India’ (Berghahn, NY and Oxford).
Speaker : Dr. Vibha Joshi joined the Institute as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in November, 2009. She obtained her D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in 2002. Her doctoral thesis was about interaction between Christian and non-Christian Angami Naga with special reference to traditional healing practices. She has worked with the Naga since 1985 and has conducted several projects that also include research on Naga material culture and museum collections in northeastern India and elsewhere which was funded by the British Academy, London and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York. Her main interests are on the effects of religious change and colonial experience on the present day global networks of Naga Christianity, including their social organisation and material culture. She recently guest-curated a major exhibition on the Naga at the Museum der Kulturen Basel.
She has co-edited, Naga: A Forgotten Mountain Region Rediscovered, in 2008 and The Land of the Nagas, in 2004. ‘Christianity and Healing: The Angami Naga of Northeastern India’ is her forthcoming title.
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"The Reverberative Nature of the Global Network of Christianity: The Naga of North East India" seminar by Dr. Vibha Joshi at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 27th March 2012
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