Time, Causality And Prophecy in the Mongolian Cultural Region

"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