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• catalog abstract ""This 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." "Prophets 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. This 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b5519210.
• catalog coverage "Sudan Religion.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description ""This 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." "Prophets 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. This 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "pt. 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.".
• catalog extent "xx, 407 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Nuer prophets.".
• catalog identifier "0198279078 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Nuer prophets.".
• catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Nuer prophets.".
• catalog spatial "Sudan Religion.".
• catalog spatial "Sudan".
• catalog subject "299/.685 20".
• catalog subject "BL2480.N7 J64 1994".
• catalog subject "Nuer (African people) Religion.".
• catalog subject "Prophecy History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Prophecy History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Prophets Sudan History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Prophets Sudan History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 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.".
• catalog title "Nuer prophets : a history of prophecy from the Upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Douglas H. Johnson.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".