Nuer Prophets

Download or read book Nuer Prophets written by Douglas Hamilton Johnson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.