Druze reincarnation narratives : previous life memories, discourses, and the construction of identities / Gebhard Fartacek (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fartacek, Gebhard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Druzes.

Reincarnation--Religious aspects.

Reincarnation.

Physical Description:

220 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang, [2021]

Summary:

"This book follows the journey of Druze individuals who can remember their former lives and go on search for their previous families. For the Druze, an ethno-religious minority in the Middle East split between different nation-states, such cases and related discourses embody ambivalent bridges between personal, familial, and ethnic identities"--Back cover.

Contents:

Ethnographic insights: narratives dealing with previous life memories among the Druze / Gebhard Fartacek

The different appearance of the identical: some thoughts about how the Druze discourse on transmigration connects lives / Lorenz Nigst

"For us, death does not exist and the taqammuṣ keeps us close": reincarnation and subjectivities in the world of the Druze / Eléonore Armanet

Leaving things in abeyance: Druze Shaykhs speaking about transmigration on TV / Lorenz Nigst

Devotions to a Druze saint: from philosopher to founder saint of the community / Nour Farra Haddad

Landscape imprint of mortuary dwellings in different sociocultural context: a comparison of Christian and Druze funerary practices in Lebanon and Syria / Salma Samaha

The Druze as a political entity in the modern state: an overview of the contemporary situation in Syria, Lebanon and Israel / Tobias Lang

Final comment: reincarnation and viability in a fractured world / Gebhard Fartacek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Fartacek, Gebhard. Druze Reincarnation Narratives.

ISBN:

9783631850527

3631850522

OCLC:

1284171983