Memory and Alterity in Zar: Religious Contact and Change in the Sudan
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in the Blue Nile town of Sennar, supported by archival and historical documentation, this article explores the history of Zar spirit possession in Sudan, and the light this throws on the interplay of religions over the past 150 years. Life history data supp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2019]
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 8 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sudan
/ Zar cult (Syncretism)
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Religious change
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations AZ New religious movements KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Slavery
B Zar spirit possession B Memory B Sudan B Military History |
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