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Two-hundred years ago, Baptist Missionaries spread Christianity to the indigenous tribes of Nagaland. Born to the Ao Tribe, anthropologist Tiatemsü Longkumer is studying the effects of the religious syncretism wrought by the missionaries on his own people's "worldview."

Get ready for some epic animistic, syncretistic, pantheistic, bitheistic, indigenous epicness.

00:00 Introduction
01:38 Interview begins
02:05 Nagaland and the Ao people
05:46 - Headhunting?
07:35 - Origins and Migrations
08:41 - The Naked People?
10:44 - Identity, Colonialization and Missionization
13:05 - Life in Nagaland, Urbanization, Stratification
15:00 - Indigenous Economy
16:50 Tia’s Journey From Farming to University
22:08 Tia’s Master’s in Cultural Anthropology
28:27 Tia’s PhD in Religious Syncretism
29:29 - Studying One’s Own People, Tradition & Culture
31:59 - Finding Beauty in Indigenous Traditions
35:26 Religious Syncretism | Ontological Preservation
36:56 - Animism and Theological Bifurcation
38:23 - (Interview gets Wild!)
39:30 Ao Theology and Cosmology
42:54 - Bitheistic Theology
45:17 No ‘Religion’
46:35 Spirits and Souls
48:51 Bitheistic Mystical Theologies
51:22 - Pantheism?
52:12 - Union with the Divine?
52:47 - Soul, Tanela
55:03 Worldview vs Zeitgeist
56:30 Soteriology
57:31 Syncretism
1:00:27 Ao Creation Myth
1:02:31 How Tia found Seekers
1:03:45 Relationship between Lijaba and Tsüngrem
1:04:58 Dualizing Good and Evil
1:07:08 Literature Review
1:08:52 Ontological Preservation
1:11:30 - Disconnected, Discontinuous Belief
1:15:53 Tia: What’s your view on Jesus?

Further Reading:
Ao Naga Worldview: A Dialogue by Sujata Miri & Karilemla
Tsungremology, Ao Naga Christian Theology by 0. Alem Ao
Evangelising the Nation by John Thomas
Constructing the Divine by G. Kanato Chophy
From Headhunting to Christianity: Questions of Cultural Identity in Ao Land
Oral Narratives of Ao Naga: Constructing Identity

Wikipedia on Nagaland, the Naga people and the Ao tribe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_Naga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagaland

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