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050 00 $aBL2480.N7$bJ64 1994
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100 1 $aJohnson, Douglas H.$q(Douglas Hamilton),$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82228482
245 10 $aNuer prophets :$ba history of prophecy from the Upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /$cDouglas H. Johnson.
260 $aOxford :$bClarendon Press ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9403
300 $axx, 407 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aOxford studies in social and cultural anthropology
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPt. I. Prelude. 1. 'The Hammer of the Kujurs': Government, Ethnography, and Nilotic Religions. 2. DENG and Aiwel: Elements of the Prophetic Idiom and Definition of the Moral Community -- Pt. II. Prophets. 3. Ngundeng: Prophetic Inspiration on the Eastern Frontier. 4. Deng Laka: A Pragmatic Prophet. 5. Guek Ngundeng and the Minor Prophets: Divinity Dispersed. 6. Dual Diu and the Continuity of a Prophetic Tradition. 7. Prophetic Rivalries in the Western Homeland -- Pt. III. Prophecy. 8. Prophetic Traditions in Peace and War. 9. The Life of Prophecy -- App. 1. Nilotic Populations -- App. 2. Nuer Divisions -- App. 3. Nuer Age-Sets.
520 $aThis is the first major study of the Nuer based on primary research since Evans-Pritchard's classic Nuer Religion. It is also the first full-length historical study of indigenous African prophets operating outside the context of the world's main religions, and as such builds on Evans-Pritchard's pioneering work in promoting collaboration and dialogue between the disciplines of anthropology and history.
520 8 $aProphets first emerged as significant figures among the Nuer in the nineteenth century. They fashioned the religious idiom of prophecy from a range of spiritual ideas, and enunciated the social principles which broadened and sustained a moral community across political and ethnic boundaries. Douglas Johnson argues that, contrary to the standard anthropological interpretation, the major prophets' lasting contribution was their vision of peace, not their role in war.
520 8 $aThis vision is particularly relevant today, and the book concludes with a detailed discussion of events in the Sudan since independence in 1956, describing how modern Nuer, and many other southern Sudanese, still find the message of the nineteenth-century prophets relevant to their experiences in the current civil war.
650 0 $aNuer (African people)$xReligious life.
650 0 $aProphecy$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aProphecy$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aProphets$zSudan$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aSudan$xReligion.
650 0 $aProphets$zSudan$xHistory$y20th century.
830 0 $aOxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91022377
852 00 $bglx$hBL2480.N7$iJ64 1994