Zar : spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt /
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"Zar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible world, the capricious spirits manifest their anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which require ritual reconciliation, a private sacrificial rite practiced routinely by the afflicted devotees. Originally spread from Ethiopia to the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf through the nineteenth-century slave trade, in Egypt zar has incorporated elements from popular Islamic Sufi practices, including devotion to Christian and Muslim saints. The ceremonies initiate devotees-the majority of whom are Muslim women-into a community centered on a cult leader, a membership that provides them with moral orientation, social support, and a sense of belonging. Practicing zar rituals, dancing to zar songs, and experiencing trance restore their well-being, which had been compromised by gender asymmetry and globalization.This new ethnographic study of zar in Egypt is based on the author's two years of multi-sited fieldwork and firsthand knowledge as a participant, and her collection and analysis of more than three hundred zar songs, allowing her to access levels of meaning that had previously been overlooked. The result is a comprehensive and accessible exposition of the history, culture, and waning practice of zar in a modernizing world"--Front flap of book jacket.
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xi, 180 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index. :
9789774166976
Life out of death : studies in the religions of Egypt and of Ancient Greece /
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"Newly translated by H.J.Franken &G.R.H.Wright from the second Dutch edition, Haarlem 1949"
on of : Het leven uit de dood ,studien over Egyptische en oud-Griekse godsdienst :
x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9068314262
Ägypten - Kindheit - Tod : Gedenkschrift für Edmund Hermsen /
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Memorial volume.
OCLC 820121643. :
262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9783412209711
3412209716 (hd.bd.) :
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=3503&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=17571719
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Le Culte du souverain dans l'Egypte ptolémaïque au IIIe siècle avant notre ère : actes du colloque international, Bruxelles, 10 mai 1995 /
: "Colloque organisé par la Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksgemeenschap van het Fonds voor Wetenschappeliji Onderzoek--Vlaanderen, "Maatschappij en Administratie in de Hellenistische en Romeinse Wereld." : viii, 108 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-108). : 9042900024 : wafaa.lib