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	Nagaland was one of several regions of north East India that experienced Christian revival movements in the 1950s and 1960s. The "Nagaland [[Christian Revival Church]]", formed in 1962, grew out of the initial phase of this movement.<ref name=AA>Allan Anderson, ed., "Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia", p237-238.</ref> It had its origin in a village in Kohima district where, in 1962, an event known as "The Great Awakening" started {{citation needed\|date=September 2014}}.		Nagaland was one of several regions of north East India that experienced Christian revival movements in the 1950s and 1960s. The "Nagaland [[Christian Revival Church]]", formed in 1962, grew out of the initial phase of this movement.<ref name=AA>Allan Anderson, ed., "Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia", p237-238.</ref> It had its origin in a village in Kohima district where, in 1962, an event known as "The Great Awakening" started {{citation needed\|date=September 2014}}.

	The revival emphasised believers having a "personal encounter with Christ", the witnessing of "signs and wonders" (such as miraculous healings), and having a missionary outreach to non-believing or nominally-Christian Nagas.<ref name=AA /> The result was that Nagaland became an overwhelmingly Christian state, known as "the only predominantly [[Baptist]] state in the [[world]]."<ref>Olson, C. Gordon. ''What in the World Is God Doing''. Global Gospel Publishers: Cedar Knolls, NJ. 2003.</ref> Among Christians, [[Baptists]] are the predominant group, constituting more than 75% of the state's population, thus making it more Baptist (on a percentage basis) than [[Mississippi]] in the southern [[United States]], where 55% of the population is Baptist.<ref>[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/GC-Faculty-Activities/ARIS--American-Religious-Identification-Survey/Key-findings American Religious Identification Survey] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414233611/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/GC-Faculty-Activities/ARIS--American-Religious-Identification-Survey/Key-findings \|date=14 April 2012 }} www.gc.cuny.edu.</ref><ref>[http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/28_2000.asp Mississippi Denominational Groups, 2000] Thearda.com. Retrieved 2010-07-30.</ref> [[~~Roman Catholic Church\|Roman~~ Catholics]], [[Christian revival\|Revivalists]], and [[Pentecostalism\|Pentecostals]] are the other [[Christian denomination]] numbers. Catholics are found in significant numbers in parts of Wokha district and [[Kohima]] district as well as in the urban areas of Kohima and Dimapur.		The revival emphasised believers having a "personal encounter with Christ", the witnessing of "signs and wonders" (such as miraculous healings), and having a missionary outreach to non-believing or nominally-Christian Nagas.<ref name=AA /> The result was that Nagaland became an overwhelmingly Christian state, known as "the only predominantly [[Baptist]] state in the [[world]]."<ref>Olson, C. Gordon. ''What in the World Is God Doing''. Global Gospel Publishers: Cedar Knolls, NJ. 2003.</ref> Among Christians, [[Baptists]] are the predominant group, constituting more than 75% of the state's population, thus making it more Baptist (on a percentage basis) than [[Mississippi]] in the southern [[United States]], where 55% of the population is Baptist.<ref>[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/GC-Faculty-Activities/ARIS--American-Religious-Identification-Survey/Key-findings American Religious Identification Survey] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414233611/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/GC-Faculty-Activities/ARIS--American-Religious-Identification-Survey/Key-findings \|date=14 April 2012 }} www.gc.cuny.edu.</ref><ref>[http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/28_2000.asp Mississippi Denominational Groups, 2000] Thearda.com. Retrieved 2010-07-30.</ref> [[Catholics]], [[Christian revival\|Revivalists]], and [[Pentecostalism\|Pentecostals]] are the other [[Christian denomination]] numbers. Catholics are found in significant numbers in parts of Wokha district and [[Kohima]] district as well as in the urban areas of Kohima and Dimapur.

	[[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] practiced by the non-Naga community are minority religions in the state, at 7.7% and 1.8% of the population respectively.		[[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] practiced by the non-Naga community are minority religions in the state, at 7.7% and 1.8% of the population respectively.

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{{see also|Nagaland Baptist Church Council}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}
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|title=Religion in Nagaland (2011)<ref name="religion2"/>
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|left1=Religion
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|float=right
|bars=
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{{bar percent|[[Hindus]]|orange|8.7}}
{{bar percent|[[Muslims]]|green|2.5}}
{{bar percent|[[Buddhism|Buddhists]]|yellow|0.3}}
{{bar percent|Others*|grey|0.6}}
|caption=Distribution of religions<br />
*<small>Includes [[Jainism|Jains]], [[Sikh]]s, [[Animist]]s.</small>
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The predominant religion of [[Nagaland]] is [[Christianity]]. The state's population is 1.988 million, out of which 90.02% are Christians. More than 98% of the [[Naga people]] identify themselves as Christian.<ref name="Indian Census">[http://www.censusindia.gov.in/ Indian Census]</ref> The 2001 census recorded the state's [[Christians|Christian]] [[population]] at 1,790,350, making it, with [[Meghalaya]] and [[Mizoram]], one of the three Christian-majority states in [[India]] and the only state where Christians form 90% of the population. The state has a very high [[church attendance]] rate in both urban and rural areas. Huge churches dominate the skylines of [[Kohima]], [[Dimapur]], and [[Mokokchung]].

It was in the early part of October 1871, Supongmeren from Molungkimong village was baptised at Sibsagar and enrolled as an American Baptist Church member. He became the bridge between the American Baptist Missionary [[Edwin W. Clark|E.W. Clark]], Evangelist Godhula and the headhunting Ao Nagas.
Kosasanger Council of Molungkimong Village (Dekahaimong) dispatched 60 warriors to escort Dr. E.W. Clark to escort him. It took almost three days from Sibsagar to reach Molungkimong. Clark arrived on 18 December (Wednesday) and baptized 15 new converts on 22nd (Sunday) December 1872 at a Village drinking well called 'Chungli Tzubu' which was permitted by the Village council. Another miracle for Clark after which they had a worship service and celebrated the first Lord's supper. Thus, on this day, the first Naga Church was founded with 28 Baptized members. They were Dr. Clark, Godhula and his wife, Supongmeren, 9 converts baptized on 10 November at Sibsagar, and 15 converts baptized at Molungkimong on 22 December 1872.

Nagaland was one of several regions of north East India that experienced Christian revival movements in the 1950s and 1960s. The "Nagaland [[Christian Revival Church]]", formed in 1962, grew out of the initial phase of this movement.<ref name=AA>Allan Anderson, ed., "Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia", p237-238.</ref> It had its origin in a village in Kohima district where, in 1962, an event known as "The Great Awakening" started {{citation needed|date=September 2014}}.

The revival emphasised believers having a "personal encounter with Christ", the witnessing of "signs and wonders" (such as miraculous healings), and having a missionary outreach to non-believing or nominally-Christian Nagas.<ref name=AA /> The result was that Nagaland became an overwhelmingly Christian state, known as "the only predominantly [[Baptist]] state in the [[world]]."<ref>Olson, C. Gordon. ''What in the World Is God Doing''. Global Gospel Publishers: Cedar Knolls, NJ. 2003.</ref> Among Christians, [[Baptists]] are the predominant group, constituting more than 75% of the state's population, thus making it more Baptist (on a percentage basis) than [[Mississippi]] in the southern [[United States]], where 55% of the population is Baptist.<ref>[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/GC-Faculty-Activities/ARIS--American-Religious-Identification-Survey/Key-findings American Religious Identification Survey] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414233611/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/GC-Faculty-Activities/ARIS--American-Religious-Identification-Survey/Key-findings |date=14 April 2012 }} www.gc.cuny.edu.</ref><ref>[http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/reports/state/28_2000.asp Mississippi Denominational Groups, 2000] Thearda.com. Retrieved 2010-07-30.</ref> [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]], [[Christian revival|Revivalists]], and [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostals]] are the other [[Christian denomination]] numbers. Catholics are found in significant numbers in parts of Wokha district and [[Kohima]] district as well as in the urban areas of Kohima and Dimapur.

[[Hinduism]] and [[Islam]] practiced by the non-Naga community are minority religions in the state, at 7.7% and 1.8% of the population respectively.

After the [[Indo-Naga war]], the opposition of Naga Christian nationalists against India and Hinduism<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.nagalandpost.com/christianity-and-naga-nationalism/199890.html | title = Christianity and Naga nationalism | date = July 15, 2019}}</ref> wasn't yet overcome. The [[Naga National Council]] had a popular plebiscite in 1951, culminated to the 1956 Constitution whose preamble affirmed the sovereignty of God the Almighty in all the universe and the entrustment of the nation to Him who never ended to sustain the descendents of the forefathers.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://easternmirrornagaland.com/history-of-naga-nationalism-from-the-religious-perspective/ | title= History from Naga Nationalism from the religious perspective | date = November 17, 2015}}</ref> religious relationships with India have also a specific discipline in the article A371 of the Constitution that come into force in 1963 and reserves to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland the right to approve by resolution any Act of the Indian Parliament in respect of "religious or social practices of the Nagas".<ref>{{cite web | url = https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/the-needles-eye/how-do-naga-peace-and-article-371a-belong-together/ | title = How do Naga peace and Article 371A belong together? | date = September 11, 2019}}</ref>

An ancient indigenous religion known as the [[Heraka]] is followed by a few people (4,168) belonging to the [[Zeliangrong]] tribe living in Nagaland. [[Rani Gaidinliu#Life in independent India|Rani Gaidinliu]] was an Indian [[Indian Independence Movement|freedom fighter]] who struggled for the revival of Heraka, the traditional [[animism|animist religion]] of the Naga people.

==Statistics==
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ Christians in Nagaland
! Year !! Number !! Percentage
|-
| 2001<ref name="religion1">{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_data_finder/C_Series/Population_by_religious_communities.htm|title=Total population by religious communities|publisher=Censusindia.gov.in|access-date=20 November 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119031333/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_data_finder/C_Series/Population_by_religious_communities.htm|archive-date=19 January 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| <center>1,790,349</center> || <center>89.96</center>
|-
| 2011<ref name="religion2">{{cite web|publisher=Census Department, Government of India|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/c-01.html|title=Indian Census 2011|access-date=25 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913045700/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01.html|archive-date=13 September 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| <center>1,739,651</center> || <center>87.93</center>
|-
|}

{{Historical populations
|title = Historical Christian Population in Nagaland<ref name="cpsindia.org">http://www.cpsindia.org › BlogsPDF
Web results
The Christianisation of the Northeast - Centre for Policy Studies</ref>
|type =
|footnote =
|align = right
|width =
|state =
|shading =
|pop_name =
|percentages =
|source = [[census of India]]
|1901 | 601
|1911 | 3,308
|1921 | 8,734
|1931 | 22,908
|1941 | 9
|1951 | 98,068
|1961 | 195,588
|1971 | 344,798
|1981 | 621,590
|1991 | 1,057,940
|2001 | 1,790,349
|2011 | 1,739,651
}}

===Trends===
'''Percentage of Christians in Nagaland by decades'''<ref name="cpsindia.org">http://www.cpsindia.org › BlogsPDF
Web results
The Christianisation of the Northeast - Centre for Policy Studies</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! '''Year'''
! '''Percent'''
! '''Increase'''
|-
| '''1901'''
| '''0.59%'''
|'''-'''
|-
| '''1911'''
| '''2.22%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" |
'''+1.63%'''
|-
| '''1921'''
| '''5.5%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" |
'''+3.28%'''
|-
| '''1931'''
| '''12.81%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" |
'''+7.31%'''
|-
| '''1941'''
| '''0%'''
| style="background: red" |
'''-12.81%'''
|-
| '''1951'''
| '''46.05%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" |
'''+46.05%'''
|-
| '''1961'''
| '''52.98%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" | '''+6.93%'''
|-
| '''1971'''
| '''66.76%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" | '''+13.78%'''
|-
| '''1981'''
| '''80.21%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" | '''+13.45%'''
|-
| '''1991'''
| '''87.47%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" | '''+7.26%'''
|-
| '''2001'''
| '''89.97%'''
| style="background: lightgreen" | '''+2.5%'''
|-
| '''2011'''
| '''87.93%'''
| style="background: red" | '''-2.04%'''
|}

===Tribes===
'''Percentage of Christians in the Scheduled Tribes'''<ref>[https://blog.cpsindia.org/2016/10/religion-data-of-census-2011-xxxi.html blog.cpsindia.org/2016/10/religion-data-of-census-2011-xxxi.html]</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! '''Tribe'''
! '''Christians'''
! '''Percent'''
|-
| '''Konyak'''
| '''2,32,619'''
|'''97.92%'''
|-
| '''Sema'''
| '''2,34,762'''
|'''99.34%'''
|-
| '''Ao'''
| '''2,24,525'''
|'''99.07%'''
|-
| '''Lotha'''
| '''1,71,771'''
|'''99.23%'''
|-
| '''Chakhesang'''
| '''1,53,740'''
|'''99.27%'''
|-
| '''Angami'''
| '''1,39,781'''
|'''98.62%'''
|-
| '''Sangtam'''
| '''74,439'''
| '''99.26%'''
|-
| '''Zeliang'''
| '''71,305'''
| '''95.23%'''
|-
| '''Yimchungre'''
| '''66,514'''
| '''99.32%'''
|-
| '''Chang'''
| '''63,603'''
| '''99.03%'''
|-
| '''Rengma'''
| '''62,285'''
| '''98.94%'''
|-
| '''Khiemnungan'''
| '''61,246'''
| '''99.35%'''
|-
| '''Phom'''
| '''52,255'''
| '''99.19%'''
|-
| '''Pochury'''
| '''21,704'''
| '''98.89%'''
|-
| '''Kuki'''
| '''18,514'''
| '''98.65%'''
|-
| '''Tikhir'''
| '''7,468'''
| '''99.08%'''
|-
| '''Kachari'''
| '''3,938'''
| '''30.21%'''
|-
| '''Viswerna'''
| '''3,536'''
| '''96.51%'''
|}

==See also==
* [[List of Christian denominations in North East India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Christianity in India by region}}
{{Churches in India}}

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