Social Forms of Religion in Wayanad- A Historical Study (1800-2000)

Research Scholar
Ms. Suja K S
Associate Professor of History
NMSM Govt. College Kalpetta

Supervising Teacher
Dr. T Muhammedali

ABSTRACT:
This is a study of the religious beliefs and practices prevailed among the people of Wayanad of Kerala in India. Religion comprises two basic forms; forms of faith and forms of practices and rituals. Religion possesses potentials to molds social relations and social identities of human beings. The study however seeks to delineate the influence of ecological, economic and social influences that the religion absorbs and accommodate so that it changes in accordance with it.