Arkotong Longkumer

Bower, Ursula Graham

Buckster, Andrew

Burke, Timothy

Burridge, Kenelm

Dena, Lal

Douglas, Mary

Eaton, Richard M.

Eliade, Mircea

Garro, Linda C.

Hervieu-Léger, Daniéle

Hoy, Suellen

Jordon, David K.

Kabui, Gangmumei

Kamei, Gangmumei

Kleinman, Arthur

Longkumer, Arkotong

Mauss, Marcel

Newme, Pautanzan

Nuh, V. K.

Ricoeur, Paul

Robinson, Rowena

Worsley, Peter

Yonuo, Asoso

Zeliang, N. C.

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 This article investigates the link between religious change and perceptions of and attitudes towards ‘hygiene’ and ‘order’ amongst adherents of Heraka, a religious reform movement among the Zeme Naga of Assam. It examines the problematic role of sacrifice, its relation-ship to the economy, and the consequent theological shift towards a monotheistic god, Tingwang, by focusing on the ritual of a Heraka village renewal. Not only does this ritual validate the abandonment of sacrifice, but also greatly diminishes disease-creating conditions—with blood equalling dirt—that traditional sacrifices had allegedly involved. Thus, while it can be said that ‘secular’ factors such as economic and health benefits explain the ‘conversion’ to Heraka, the article argues that theological beliefs, in particular Christian notions of ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’, also had an impact on the Heraka. </jats:p

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‘Cleanliness is next to godliness’

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"Cleanliness is next to Godliness": Religious change, hygiene and the renewal of Heraka Villages in Assam

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