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About Tiatemsu Longkumer
I am a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. My doctoral research explored the complex interplay between indigenous religion and Christianity among the Ao Naga of Nagaland. My current research focuses on Buddhism in Bhutan and Generative AI in teaching and learning practices. I teach courses in anthropology, communication skills, and Generative AI.Dr. Tiatemsu Longkumer is a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. His doctoral research explored the complex interplay between indigenous religion and Christianity among the Ao Naga of Nagaland. Dr. Longkumer’s current research focuses on Buddhism in Bhutan. He teaches courses in anthropology, communication skills, and Generative AI.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tiatemsu:
March 17, 2026
GenAI and Higher Education
GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2026) provides practical guidance for higher education professionals looking …
January 3, 2026
The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs
Hans Van Eyghen's book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents…
December 13, 2025
Food, Culture and Society in India
Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, P…
September 19, 2025
The Indian University
Is there such a thing as an ‘Indian university’? Is there an ‘idea’ of an Indian university? Were universities in India living and breathing products …
May 19, 2025
Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China
In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in …
February 5, 2024
Roaming Free Like a Deer
Daniel Capper's book Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World (Cornell UP, 2022) delves into ecological experiences in seven Buddhist …
January 26, 2024
Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path
Santideva's 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist classic, "The Guide to the Practices of Awakening" (Bodhicaryavatara), has been a source of philosophical in…
January 17, 2024
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (Oxford UP, 2019) offers an engaging philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Integrating co…
October 2, 2023
Life without God
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the …
August 22, 2023
The Frontier in British India
In The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2021), Thomas Simpson provides an innovative acco…
July 15, 2023
Nationalism in the Vernacular
Roluah Puia's book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our underst…
May 14, 2023
Choral Voices
Sebanti Chatterjee's book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (Bloomsbury, 2023) is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa…
April 24, 2023
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious a…
April 8, 2023
Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications
Nishant Kumar's Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary (Routledge, 2022) anal…
February 28, 2023
Beyond Belief
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? T…
February 22, 2023
When God Stops Fighting
How does religious violence end? When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (U California Press, 2022) probes for answers through case studi…
February 12, 2023
India after the 1857 Revolt
In India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind (Routledge, 2022), M. Christhu Doss brings together some of the most cutting-edge thoughts by ch…
February 1, 2023
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a unique introduction to studying …
January 3, 2023
Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary na…
December 24, 2022
Indian Christmas
Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gl…
December 10, 2022
Fire on the Island
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ How…
December 2, 2022
The Next World
In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationsh…
November 29, 2022
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion
Eugenia Roussou's book Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece (Bloomsbury, 2021) thoroughly ill…
November 23, 2022
The Secular Imaginary
Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India’s electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly ‘Western’ concepts and ideas, su…