The Bawm are a tribal group living in the Bandarban district and a small fraction in the Rangamati district of the This article is in need of attention. Please improve it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chittagong_Hill_Tracts&action=edit) in any way you see fit. The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is an area of 13,180 Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an... Chittagong Hill Tracts in The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh is a country in Map of South Asia South Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, . It covers about 4,480,000 km², or 10 percent of the continent, and is... Bangladesh. Of Burmese origin and speaking a The Tibeto-Burman linguistic subfamily of the proposed Sino-Tibetan language family is spoken in various central and south Asian countries: Myanmar (Burmese language), Tibet (Tibetan language), northern Thailand (Mong language), Nepal, Bhutan, India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and the Ladakh region of... Tibeto-Burman dialect, their tribal population stands at 6,000. Their name Bawm means ties.

Religion

Owing to the efforts of Baptist This article is about the religous people known as Christians. For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). The term Christian means belonging to Christ, and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the... Christian missionaries funded by the British government since 1918, the majorty of the Bawm have converted to For other uses of the term Christian, see This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended... Christianity, and it was said that all of them are Christians. As of today, there are relatively few Bawm who still cling to their Animist faith. Even then, the concept of such ties has developed from their culture of doing collectively all things of life, including hunting, singing and dancing, eating and drinking or offering homage to gods has developed to such an extent that elements of their Animist beliefs have largely interwined with Christianity.

One can see Animist influences in their rituals, culture, and beliefs. A few of the Christian Bawm, however, still worship Animist gods side by side with Christian gods, although the majorty have abandoned much of the Animist traditions.

External links

• [1] (http://bawm.info/)
• Bawm Christianity (http://bawm.info/bawmchristianity.htm)
• Dance of the Bawn tribe in Ruma (http://www.gaszyn.six.pl/cht27.htm)