Christian Millenarianism

Among the peoples that self-identify as Nagas, the Konyak Naga are the largest traditionally endogamous society residing in, and considered indigenous to, the eastern Himalayan Patkai range. Often distinguished by their traditional angh system of hereditary kingships, as well as their once elaborate tattooing practices and sophisticated blacksmithing, like their Naga neighbors they have largely embraced Christianity as their own, abandoning an elaborate traditional religion resembling forms of animism found among many of their highland Asian neighbors. The 2011 Indian census reports that there were 238,285 Konyak residents in the majority Konyak Mon district of Nagaland state, with many thousands in other districts, including the Naga Self-Administered zone in the Sagaing region, Myanmar. While some Konyak communities may be found in Sibsagar district in Assam state, their mutually acknowledged close ethnic relatives in Arunachal Pradesh state, namely the Wancho (numbering 56,866 as per the 2011 census) residing in Longding district, and the Nocte (numbering 111,679 as per the 2011 census) inhabiting Tirap district, may be considered part of a larger Konyakian or Northern Naga cognate family in the Sal branch of the Sino-Tibetan or Trans-Himalayan linguistic classification. Map: area inhabited by the Konyak Naga.

L'article propose une analyse nouvelle des thèmes eschatologiques dans l’œuvre justinienne, et plus particulièrement dans les chapitres 80-81 du Dialogue : explicitement consacrés au millénaire, ces chapitres s’inscrivent, en réalité, dans une réflexion beaucoup plus large, menée à travers un réseau très complexe de motifs entrelacés, sur « orthodoxie » et « hérésie ». On retrouve ici un mode de composition original dont les principales caractéristiques ont été mises en évidence dans le premier chapitre de l’introduction à notre édition du Dialogue, et dans plusieurs autres publications relatives à Justin.

MONTANER, Alberto, «Profecía de fray Juan de Rocasía: Version aljamiada», Sémata: Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades, vol. 26 (2014), p. 399 [apéndice a Juana María Arcelus, «Las traducciones MSS en castellano del “Vade Mecum in Tribulatione” de Johannes de Rupescissa OFMconv (1310ca-1365)», Sémata, vol. 26 (2014), pp. 383-404; vide etiam pp. 393-396].

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