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DESCRIPTION:Piers Vitebsky on&nbsp\;Christian and Hindu Styles of Reform &n
 bsp\;Among the Sora of Tribal OdishaPiers Vitebsky\,&nbsp\;Assistant\nDire
 ctor of Research\, Retired&nbsp\;Scott\nPolar Research Institute\, Univers
 ity of CambridgeJust one\ngeneration ago\, the Sora\ntribe in India believ
 ed that their lives were determined by the spirits of the\ndead\, with who
 m they negotiated their well being in dialogues held through\nshamans in t
 rance.&nbsp\; Today\, almost all\nyoung Sora have\nbecome evangelical Chri
 stians or fundamentalist Hindus.\nFor some\,\nthis shift is a liberation a
 s they turn from the spirits of a remote jungle to\nliteracy\, employment 
 and democratic politics\; others despair for fear of being\nforgotten afte
 r death.&nbsp\; How did the old\nway of life\, which meant so much so rece
 ntly\, fail so suddenly?&nbsp\; What is the appeal of these new religions?
  Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Af
 fairs
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SUMMARY:Christian and Hindu Styles of Reform Among the Sora of Tribal Odish
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><b>Piers Vitebsky on&nbsp\;Christian and Hi
 ndu Styles of Reform &nbsp\;Among the Sora of Tribal Odisha</b></p><p><b><
 i>Piers Vitebsky\,&nbsp\;</i></b><i>Assistant\nDirector of Research\, Reti
 red&nbsp\;Scott\nPolar Research Institute\, University of Cambridge</i></p
 >Just one\ngeneration ago\, the Sora\ntribe in India believed that their l
 ives were determined by the spirits of the\ndead\, with whom they negotiat
 ed their well being in dialogues held through\nshamans in trance.&nbsp\; T
 oday\, almost all\nyoung Sora have\nbecome evangelical Christians or funda
 mentalist Hindus.\nFor some\,\nthis shift is a liberation as they turn fro
 m the spirits of a remote jungle to\nliteracy\, employment and democratic 
 politics\; others despair for fear of being\nforgotten after death.&nbsp\;
  How did the old\nway of life\, which meant so much so recently\, fail so 
 suddenly?&nbsp\; What is the appeal of these new religions?<p> </p><p><b><
 i>Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global A
 ffairs</i></b></p>
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