Gender Roles and Popular Religion
Throughout the semester one of the most common broad themes of the course was the part that gender roles play in popular religion. Examples of these are the female jinn, zar culture, the majduba and...
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In our last couple of reading I have developed an interest in the role women have in popular religion. It is obvious from the readings that these communities are strongly male dominated. Women are...
View ArticleControlled Power Through the Zar
In this weeks reading, I was really interested to learn about the relationship between the zâr and jinn. They are seemingly very similar, and play very similar roles in Muslims society, with the major...
View ArticleGender roles and the Zar
While the article Empowering Spirits: Women and Zaar Spirit Possession went into great detail regarding the ceremonies women partook in when possessed, the article The Work of Zar: Women and Spirit...
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