The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : Return to the Naked Nagas (1939;1976)

caption: Chapter Twenty-seven. Return to Nagaland
caption: abandonment of old tribal religion and ritual to Christianity
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyaks
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1970
text: Today there are many Konyak communities which have totally abandoned their old tribal religion, and have embraced Christianity not so much as a result of individual conversions but in the belief that by accepting the new religion they would obtain the fruits of modernization.
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