The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India

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. From Spirits to Personage: Changes in religious faith among the Rathwa Adivasi of Gujarat 17. On the Threshold of Change: Religious Beliefs and Practices of the Bonda as Revealed in Pratibha Ray's The Primal Land 18. Tribal Ecoethics and Religion: A Study of Select Ecoethical Narratives from Northeast India Part V: Conceptualising Change 19. Liminality: Religion of the Sahariya of Rajasthan State, India 20. Dynamics of Dandakatta Ritual in the Oraon Religion: A Symbolic Interpretation 21. Devgudi: Village Sacred Shrine of Chhattisgarh now and then Part VI: Towards Institutionalisation 22. Issues of Institutionalisation and Kurichiyan religion in the current socio-political context of Kerala 23. Thus says the Supreme God: Examining the Idea of Revelation in the Tribal Movements in India 24. Situating Shamanism in Contemporary Tribal Religions of Arunachal Pradesh: A Case Study of the Idu Mishmi Part VII: Politics and Tribal Religion 25. Tamil Folk Religion: Contemporary Dynamics 26. Tribal Religion and Identity Politics 27. "Tribal Religion is a Reality" (Furnishing of Certain Clinching Evidences from the Tribal Nilgiris) 28. Disrupting Classification: 'Tribes', the Demand for Recognition of a Tribal Religion, Possessed Women, and the Case of 'Demons'