ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to analyze the revival movements among the Nagas in North East India (NEI) with an historical analytical method. Contemporary missionary reports serve as the main source for the first revival movement. Nagas are one of the indigenous ethnic groups of South Asia living in India and Myanmar. Christianity came to the Nagas in the nineteenth century and today it has become the dominant religion of the Nagas. The Naga churches have experienced three revival movements with spiritual/charismatic gifts during the 1920s, the 1950s, and the 1970s. The revival movement of the 1920s was the first ever revival experienced by the Naga Christians. It is true that Christians intensified their prayer for peace and spiritual strength in the midst of persecution by non-Christians and political turmoil in the Naga areas. The Nagas first received Christianity from the American Baptist missionaries who began their mission in the Naga areas in the nineteenth century.
