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Zār - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zār or Zaar ( زار ) is a pagan religious custom, apparently originating in central Ethiopia during the eighteenth century, later spreading throughout East and North Africa. Zār custom involves th...
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Gerasimos Makris speaks on the complex of practices that constitute the Zar cult among women in Sudan. Interesting observations on religion, gender, and Sudanese cultural practices. Filmed in March 2006, Bergen, Norway.
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LEAD: WOMBS AND ALIEN SPIRITS Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. By Janice Boddy. 399 pp. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. Cloth, $45. Paper, $23.95. ... Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan.
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There are several extraordinary books about the subject - one covers the zar in Sudan, another looks at possession healing in Egypt. The third is about the Zar cult in Ethiopia. The books are PhD thesises, so they can be difficult reading for those not initiated into the vocabulary of anthropology.
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Two traditional customs among Sudanese women had an enormous impact upon their private and social relationships--the zar cult and female "circumcision." Zar was the name given to the ceremony conducted only by women practitioners required to pacify evil spirits and to cleanse women of afflictions caused by demons or jinn.
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Wombs and Alien Spirits; Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Suda ... Adherents of the cult are usually women with marital or fertility problems, who are possessed by spirits very different from their own proscribed roles as mothers.
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Amazon.com: Wombs And Alien Spirits: Women, Men, And The Zar Cult In
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TRANCE DANCING AND THE CULT OF THE ZAR ... The use of acting-out or possession trances has a history going back to the cult of Dionysos and the Corybantes. What little we know of these cults strongly resembles the zar cult as practiced in modern Christian Ethiopia, as well as in the Sudan and throughout the middle east.
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Adherents to the Zar cult in northern Sudan encounter spirits that are parallels of historically relevant figures in the known human world. Those possessed, usually women, meet aliens who speak about issues confronting their village.
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A psychiatric study of 100 Egyptian women attending El-Zar has been made. Their ages, marital status, level of education and diagnostic entities are evaluated. A psychophysiological explanation for this cult is attempted.
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