An Exploration of Christianity in Northeast India in the Emerging Political Context: Trials and Opportunities
In the past years, the Northeast people linked the BJP with the principle of Hindutwa (a Hindu way of life) that made it unattractive for them. In recent years, the Party surprisingly takes the area like wildfire by dictating who is to rule in many states. Now, switching from old history to that of...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Transformation
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 193-204 |
IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBM Asia SA Church law; state-church law |
Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B ethnographic B Friction B Regionalism B state-evading B Opportunities |
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Summary: | In the past years, the Northeast people linked the BJP with the principle of Hindutwa (a Hindu way of life) that made it unattractive for them. In recent years, the Party surprisingly takes the area like wildfire by dictating who is to rule in many states. Now, switching from old history to that of a fresher one, a historian may significantly raise a question in this transition: “Is the Hindu way of life entering the region with the emergence of the BJP?” One perception which robustly stands against this question is that the native inhabitants view the coming of the BJP in the Northeast as “a politics of convenience and expediency” to boost up their deprived economic situations. They do not perceive it as a politic of conviction to and assurance for the BJP. |
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ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/02653788221112666 |