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Volume 02, Issue 6

Published on: June 2026

THE CHURCH AS THE "SOCIAL GLUE": THE ROLE OF RELIGIONS IN THE MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL COHESION IN CONTEMPORARY MIZORAM.

Saidingliana Sailo

Vairengte College, Mizoram
DOI:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.062

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The Mizo community is indigenous to Northeast India. Their traditional homeland was geographically partitioned across three Indian states due to colonial demarcation such as Mizoram, Tripura and Assam, and their primary demographic concentration lies in the state of Mizoram. In Mizo society, religion plays a significant role, and serves a foundational pillar. It is to be noted that long before the advent of Christianity, religion or faith was embedded in the Mizo’s way of life. Religion in the society functions as the primary mechanism for social stability and also for the moderation of deviance. This paper examines how religion in Mizo society acts as a binding factor for the institutions of family, kinship, and community, and it explores how local ecclesiastical frameworks and religious activities play an important role in sustaining collective identity and social cohesion in Mizo society.

Keywords: Mizo Society, Social Cohesion, Mizoram, Mizo Religion, Social problems, sacred, rituals, deviance

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Sailo, S. (2026). The Church as the "Social Glue": The Role of Religions in the Mechanisms of Social Cohesion in Contemporary Mizoram.. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(6). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.062

Sailo, Saidingliana. "The Church as the "Social Glue": The Role of Religions in the Mechanisms of Social Cohesion in Contemporary Mizoram.." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 6, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.062.

Sailo, Saidingliana. "The Church as the "Social Glue": The Role of Religions in the Mechanisms of Social Cohesion in Contemporary Mizoram.." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 6 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.062.

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