Time, Causality and Prophecy in the Mongolian Cultural Region

Visions of the Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-901903-79-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Inner Asia Book Series

How do prophets and their prophecies influence the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian cultural region when prophetic forms and people seem so varied? This book brings together anthropologists, historians and religious specialists to focus on the role of prophets and the distributed language of prophecy in relation to these questions. Central Asia has a longstanding tradition of prophets who have either challenged or collaborated with political leaders, and due to new uncertainties about the future, current interest in prophetic announcements has recently re-surfaced. This volume explores the arenas in which prophets and their prophecies have influenced the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time in the Mongolian cultural region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Empson, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Circulating Prophetic Texts; 2 Prophecy and Sequential Orders in Mongolian Political History; 3 The President and the Seer: A Case Study of Prophecy and Scientific Attitudes in Modern Political Life; 4 The Transmission and Source of Prophecy in Contemporary Mongolia; 5 Recalling Past Futures: The Property of Oral Prophecies and Lay-prophets; 6 The repetition of Mongolian Prophetic Time; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Empson is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 2003 she completed her PhD, which was based on fieldwork among Buryats from the northern Mongolian-Russian border. Her thesis focused on the mobility of kin relations from the perspective of children and daughters-in-law. She is currently preparing a monograph based on this work, with particular reference to memory and reincarnation.