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| Title: | On Disciples and Magicians: The Diversification of Divinity among the Nuer during the Colonial Era |
| Author: | Johnson, Douglas H. |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | February |
| Pages: | 2-22 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sudan |
| Subjects: | magic African religions prophets Nuer Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft colonialism History and Exploration |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1580781.pdf |
| Abstract: | The Nuer living in the Sudan east of the Nile experienced the release of prophetic control twice in the early part of this century: first, briefly, after the death of the Lou prophet Ngundeng Bong (d. 1906); second, and more completely, after the British colonial government's suppression of prophets during the 'Nuer settlement' of 1929. This paper examines the conseqences of the release of that control. First, it looks at the careers of mantic persons along the Sudan-Ethiopian frontier, which constituted the outer fringe of Ngundeng's influence during his life. It briefly compares the careers of three Jikany prophets in the period 1906-1920, namely Ngundeng's Gaajok disciple, Duop Thar, the prominent Gaajak cattle expert, Gai Jang, and the Gaajak prophet of the divinity Wiu, Mut Dung. Next, it examines the problem of the spread of lesser divinities and magic following the forced removal of prophets from most Nuer communities in the 1930s, focusing on aspects of colonial rule which contributed to the spread of magic and free divinities. Ref. |
