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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> [[ | 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. | ||