Dual Conversion Among the Shinlung of Northeast India

Bibliographic Data

ID8111162
AuthorsWeil (0000-0001-6784-3254, The NCJW Research Institute School of Education the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mount Scopus Jerusalem 91905, Israel, corresponding author), Shalva Weil
Year2003
Volume1
Issue1
Pages43-57
Publication date2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies of Tribes and Tribals (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0972-639X • E-ISSN: 2456-6799
PublisherKamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0972639x.2003.11886483
OpenAlexW2187434702
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited18

This article tracks the dual ethnic and religious metamorphosis of the Shinlung, a collectivity of tribes from Northeast India and Burma, to Christianity and then to Judaism. Conversion to Christianity took place after missionaries established themselves in the tribal areas in the second half of the nineteenth century. Conversion to Judaism among a minority during the last twenty years was the result of a general dissatisfaction with Christianity, a search for ethnic autonomy, and an attempt at “re-traditionalisation”, through Judaism dovetailed with pre-Christian indigenous religion. A millenarian connection to Judaism was made through imputed affiliation to the Lost Ten Tribes and the inclusion of converted Shinlung in Israel as descendants of the tribe of Menasseh

Ancient history · Archaeology · Christianity · Dual (grammatical number · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Judaism · Millenarianism · Political science · Politics · Religious conversion · Sociology · Tribe · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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