Senate of Serampore College

The modern Ecumenical movement saw the formation of WCC globally and NCCI, CSI-CNI-Mar-Thoma unity in India. Indian national sentiments and the freedom movement influenced post-independence identity. Western missions promoted indigenous leadership amid colonial rule's end. However, the extent of ecumenical ideas among Christians and leaders is uncertain. Education and awareness can address queries about Christian divisions and foster unity.

Isaiah 11, also known as the oracle of the "shoot of Jesse," imagines the ushering of an ideal age. The production of the book of Isaiah, including its multiple redactions, in the material circumstances of the subjugation of Israel under successive empires, makes it necessary to ask whether or how the text engages with its imperial milieu. What kind of figure does the "shoot of Jesse" represent in its imperial landscape? What kind of rule is imagined by the Shoot Oracle? This article engages with these questions by employing Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity and argues that the poetic celebration of the "shoot of Jesse" presents a mimetic/hybrid figure and articulates an in-between space that subverts the imperial discourse as well as nationalistic hegemonic overtures of the Davidic dynasty.

Hospitality is missional in every aspect as it invites others to experience the redemptive experience and hospitality of God. And as Christians we believe that we are created and called to live in community both with God and others. This calls for hospitality to become one of our priorities to reach out to our neighborhoods. Hospitality to strangers gives us a chance to see our own lives afresh, through different eyes.[1] One of the basic factors of unfulfilled hospitality is difference. We do feel more comfortable with the ones who have the same likeness, interest etc. Another factor is individualism that outshadowed communitarian living. This has promoted privatization, being satisfied what I owned I do not need my neighbor attitude gave birth to selfish, competitive and unjust lifestyle.   This paper is to explore the ecumenical and Indigenous aspects of hospitality and further employ this as a paradigm in integral mission. Prior to that it will outline the biblical foundation on hospitality and further move on to speculate on hospitality in ecumenical explorations pinpointing its missional dimension and call to hospitality. Another aspect will be from the Indigenous people’s understanding on hospitality wherein three aspects will be highlighted: Blessing of hosting, sharing as an aspect of hospitality and reciprocation as an act of hospitality. Later the paper will attempt to infuse this on Christian understanding of hospitality, on how it can be established as a paradigm for Christian mission. Keywords: Hospitality, Biblical Understanding, Indigenous, Sobaliba, Ecumenical.

Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a chronic, neglected nematode parasite that infected filarial parasites. It is abundant in underprivileged communities across the globe. It is belonging to the group of rare neglected tropical diseases (NTD). After malaria, it is the leading infectious disease. Causative organisms Wuchereria bancrofti , Brugia malayi , and Brugia timori belong to the phylum Nematode. It affects billions of people in India and several other countries. They were asymptomatic, but now a day few symptoms have been observed such as lymphedema, elephantiasis and hydrocele. This disease shows close communication with humans by interacting with host immune systems. They disrupt monocytes/macrophages, dendritic cells, granulocytes, eosinophils, basophils, and Toll-like receptors. This review demonstrated macrophage cells’ (mɸs) role and their therapeutic approaches.

This paper discusses about the biggest family in the world, the family of Pu Ziona, which has unique and peculiar stories to tell. The religious community led by the different leaders of the sect has fascinating narratives –exotic manifestations, polygamous feature, isolation from mainline society, communal life, and exceptional adaptability for economic sustenance. Presently, the nephew of the founding father, Pu Ziona inherited leadership of the community from his uncle and has as many as 39 wives, women of different dispositions with diverse family backgrounds. The community of Ziona also known as Lalpa Kohhran Thar (New Church of the Lord) or Chhuanthar Kohhran (Church of New Generation) has not simply survived in a context in which denominational churches have forced most new religious movements to fizzle out after a couple of decades or so; the Ziona's family has been flourishing. Looking at the close resemblance of the community with that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Lalsawma called the movement The Mormons of Mizoram, also comparable with The Family in America. Like other new religious movements in the state, Vanlalchhuanawma observes that there is an

This paper is mainly an attempt to present briefly the historical facts and the nature of ethnic violence in the region and not an attempt to interpret them or provide solutions for them as such but with a view to trigger a meaningful time of collective interaction from the pro-peace activists and participants present here. This paper uses a historical survey method. The result of this paper is that ethnic violence in the Northeast region can be attributed to various factors - land alienation, large and continuous influx of immigrants, struggle for space, homeland and struggle for natural resources in the same geographical space, problems of majority and minority populations, insurgency conflicts, and others. Thus, it becomes clear that peace can be restored in the region only through the restoration of people's land and cultural identity, socio-political autonomy, poverty alleviation, education and development especially in rural areas.

Abstract The Third Isaianic discourse revolves around the theme of Jerusalem/Zion. Researchers have dwelt upon the theme from either a historical plane or an eschatological plane, however, its role as a counter-imperial motif has not been explored. In view of the imperil milieu of the prophetic discourse, this paper argues that Jerusalem is presented as a strategic trope to counter the imperial discourse. Jerusalem in the biblical discourse represents a theological as well as a national symbol. It also symbolizes the colonized self of the Yehud community reeling under the Persian empire. At the same time, Jerusalem and the temple display the narrow nationalistic agenda of the Jerusalem establishment. The prophetic discourse of Trito Isaiah carves out an alternative space, a hybrid space that not only breaks the imperial supremacy but also disrupts the nationalistic hegemony of the Jerusalem establishment. The prophetic discourse imagines an alternative world that undercuts imperial definitions of life. In view of the unity of the book, the paper also brings out that the counter-imperial texture of the theme of Jerusalem in Third Isaianic discourse can be located in the complex growth and the final shaping of the book of Isaiah.