Druze Reincarnation Narratives Previous Life Memories, Discourses, and the Construction of Identities

"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...

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Language:English
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2021
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