A study of religious identities among the Bru of Mizoram
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2013-02-07
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Understanding of identity: Meaning of identity, formation of identity, multiple identity, identity confusion, crisis and search for rediscovery, consciousness of ethnic identity, religious identity, ethnic identity and religious identity of the Bru, constitutional status of the Bru and their tribal identity in India, Origin and history of the Bru: Nomenclature or terminology, tuikuk, riang or reang, bru, ancestral home or original place of Bru, Settlement in Mizoram, Deities whom the Bru believe to be benevolent: Matai katar, lokhi mainouhma, tuibuma, longdurai, sawngkhawtawrini and kalajibawn, ekeni ronjon, roikhiakali, borma, bisnaw, mahisor, sibrai and hangbrai, isawr, Deities whom the Bru believe to be malevolent: Buraha, seven sisters, two brothers, gonga mahthi rajama, sawni or sawnithagu, Special people and sacrifices: Auchai, dwari, bawidaw, gyaing kmain, kumayuh, Sacrifices: Sacfices during pregnancy and child-birth, family sacrifices as prayer, petition and thanksgiving, sacrifice of propitiation and recovery, sacrifice for public welfare, Bru myths: Myth of creation and sacrifice, myth of divine incarnation and intervention, myth of origin of worship of deities, myth of sibrai and hangbrai, myth of orphan and divine help and intervention, Worship in Bru religion, significance of Bru beliefs and practices, Change that confronts the Bru and the Bru response: Political change and Bru response, economic change and Bru response, religious change and Bru response, socio-cultural change and Bru response, effect of ongoing change upon the Bru and their response, Bru-Mizo interaction and Bru religious identity: Religious interaction between Bru and Mizo, Bru religious identity main factor for resistance to Mizo christianity and re-affirmation of Bru community identity