Time, causality and prophecy in the Mongolian cultural region
Subtitle: visions of the future
By: edited by Rebecca Empson.
Contributors: Empson, Rebecca.
Series: Inner Asia series
Publisher: Global Oriental
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Folkestone
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781901903799
Subjects: Mongols -- Prophecies; Religious literature, Mongolian; Religious literature, Mongolian -- Translations into English; Mongolia -- History -- Prophecies; Asia, Central -- History -- Prophecies; Mongolia -- Politics and government
Genres: Translations into English
Description: "How do prophets and their prophecies influence 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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.