Nuer Prophets a History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1997
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List of FiguresList of MapsNote on OrthographyAbbreviations and GlossaryPART I: PRELUDE1.. "The Hammer of the Kujurs": Government, Ethnography, and Nilotic Religions2.. Deng and Aiwel: Elements of the Prophetic Idiom and Definition of the Moral CommunityPART II: PROPHETS3.. Ngundeng: Prophetic Inspiration on the Eastern Frontier4.. Deng Laka: A Pragmatic Prophet5.. Guek Ngundeng and the Minor Prophets: Divinity Dispersed6.. Dual Diu and the Continuity of a Prophetic Tradition7.. Prophetic Rivalries in the Western HomelandPART III: PROPHECY8.. Prophetic Traditions in Peace and War9.. The Life of ProphecyAPPENDICES1.. Nilotic Populations2.. Nuer Divisions3.. Nuer Age-SetsSources and ReferencesIndex
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