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About Tiatemsu Longkumer

My name is Tiatemsu Longkumer from Nagaland: India belonging to Ao Tribe. Currently, I'm a Ph.D. Student at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India, Dept. of Anthropology. I'm working on 'Anthropology of Religion' focusing on Christianity and animism/traditional/indigenous religion. My area of interest is Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Philosophy of Religion.

Tiatemsu Longkumer is a Ph.D. Student working on ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong: India.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Tiatemsu:

Religion September 1, 2023

The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs

Hans Van Eyghen

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Hans Van Eyghen's book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits and …
South Asian Studies August 22, 2023

The Frontier in British India

Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Simpson

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In The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2021), Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed …
South Asian Studies July 15, 2023

Nationalism in the Vernacular

State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India

Roluah Puia

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Roluah Puia's book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics …
South Asian Studies May 14, 2023

Choral Voices

Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality

Sebanti Chatterjee

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Sebanti Chatterjee's book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV …
Religion April 24, 2023

Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Things of Conflict

Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema

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How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations, and how …
South Asian Studies April 8, 2023

Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications

An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

Nishant Kumar

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Nishant Kumar's Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary (Routledge, 2022) analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in …
Religion February 28, 2023

Beyond Belief

How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World

Elle Hardy

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How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? This is the religion of …
Religion February 22, 2023

When God Stops Fighting

How Religious Violence Ends

Mark Juergensmeyer

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How does religious violence end? When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (U California Press, 2022) probes for answers through case studies and personal interviews with militants associated with …
South Asian Studies February 12, 2023

India after the 1857 Revolt

Decolonising the Mind

M. Christhu Doss

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In India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind (Routledge, 2022), M. Christhu Doss brings together some of the most cutting-edge thoughts by challenging the cultural project of colonialism and critically …
Religion February 1, 2023

A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion

Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary

Mikel Burley

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A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a unique introduction to studying the philosophy of religion, drawing on a wide range of cultures and literary …
Anthropology January 3, 2023

Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life

Joel Robbins

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Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made …
Religion December 24, 2022

Indian Christmas

Essays, Memories, Hymns

Jerry PInto and Madhulika Liddle

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Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas—the night that …
Religion December 10, 2022

Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Tom Bratrud

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In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ However, it ended dramatically when two …
Religion December 2, 2022

The Next World

Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife

Gregory Shushan

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In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death …
Religion November 29, 2022

Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion

The Evil Eye in Greece

Eugenia Roussou

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Eugenia Roussou's book Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece (Bloomsbury, 2021) thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in …
Religion November 23, 2022

The Secular Imaginary

Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India

Sushmita Nath

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Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India’s electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly ‘Western’ concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of …
Religion November 1, 2022

The Thing about Religion

An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions

David Morgan

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Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has broadened that framework radically to encompass the understanding that …
South Asian Studies October 12, 2022

A Matter of Belief

Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

Vibha Joshi

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‘Nagaland for Christ’ and ‘Jesus Saves’ are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity that belies …
Religion October 10, 2022

Beyond Heaven and Earth

A Cognitive Theory of Religion

Gabriel Levy

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In Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion (MIT Press, 2022), Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis …
Religion September 23, 2022

Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation

A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience

Jamie Barnes

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Stories, Senses and the Charismatic Relation: A Reflexive Ethnography of Christian Experience (Routledge, 2020) offers a uniquely intimate and auto-ethnographic exploration of Christian experience, rendering a deep, phenomenological account of …
Christian Studies August 12, 2022

Beyond Missio Dei

Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness

Sarosh Koshy

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In Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and …
Religion July 28, 2022

The Origin of Sin

Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity

David Konstan

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Where did the idea of sin arise from? In The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity (Bloomsbury, 2022), David Konstan takes a close look at classical …
Religion July 12, 2022

Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

Travis W. Proctor

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Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (Oxford UP, 2022) analyze how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body …
Religion June 29, 2022

Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously

Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion

Teemu Taira

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Teemu Taira's book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill, 2022) demonstrates through methodological reflections and carefully chosen case studies a new way to conduct the study …