Book
Christianity and social change in northeast India: a study of the role of Christianity in social change among the Khasi-Jaintia Hill tribes of Meghalaya
Vendrame Institute ; Firma KLM Private Ltd. • Shillong • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Snaitang, O. L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is a scholarly study of the history of Christianity in northeast India following the introduction of British rule in the 1820s. The focus is the Khasi-Jaintia area of the state of Meghalaya where the hill tribes were the first to be brought under British colonial rule and the influences of Christian missions and churches. Snaitang demonstrates '…that among the Khasi-Jaintia people Christianity played a significant acculturative role in helping them maintain their distinctive identity while at the same time preparing them to function effectively within the new order introduced by British administration' (p. vii). Thus, Christianity provided not only a means of dealing with the modernization of the society but also the means of preserving a distinctive identity in the process. According to Snaitang, Christianity accomplished this through the standardization of the written language, its educational work, ideology, evangelism, and church structure (p. viii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Tribe and nation
- General character of religion
- Religious denominations
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khasi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Humanist
- Theologian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Meghalaya, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- O. L. Snaitang
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-210) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)