"This volume marks the first centenary of the official establishment of the Catholic Church in Northeast India in the year 1890. . . . The chapters are grouped together according to various topics. . . . inspirational . . . historical . . . biographical . . . evangelization and development . . . the impact of the Church on society in Northeast India . . . [and] missiological reflections" (Introduction).

Contributed articles.

Study on Christianity in Northeastern India in the works of Frederick Sheldon Downs, b. 1932, American Baptist missionary.

Collection of papers presented at a seminar held at Sacred Heart Theological College, Shillong.

'Nagaland for Christ' and 'Jesus Saves' are familiar slogans prominently displayed on public transport and celebratory banners in Nagaland, north-east India. They express an idealization of Christian homogeneity that belies the underlying tensions and negotiations between Christian and non-Christian Naga. This religious division is intertwined with that of healing beliefs and practices, both animistic and biomedical. This study focuses on the particular experiences of the Angami Naga, one of the many Naga peoples. Like other Naga, they are citizens of the state of India but extend ethnolinguistically into Tibeto-Burman south-east Asia. This ambiguity and how it affects their Christianity, global involvement, indigenous cultural assertiveness and nationalist struggle is explored. Not simply describing continuity through change, this study reveals the alternating Christian and non-Christian streams of discourse, one masking the other but at different times and in different guises.