%0 Journal Article %T ¡®Entering a gigantic maze:¡¯ The ambivalent presence of previous %A Lorenz Nigst %J Social Compass %@ 1461-7404 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0037768619833317 %X According to the Druze notion of transmigration (taqammu£¿), whenever someone dies, his or her soul moves into the body of a newborn Druze of the same sex. While this makes the Druze feel that they belong together in a more fundamental way because they are ¡®born in each other¡¯s houses¡¯ (Oppenheimer), it is more ambivalent the moment children start to ¡®speak¡¯ about previous lives in another family. Allowing the ¡®return¡¯ of someone lost to death and potentially bringing two such houses in closer relation, ¡®speaking¡¯ also requires coming to terms with conflicting belonging %K Druze %K nu£¿q %K previous-life memories %K taqammu£¿ %K transmigration %K Druze %K nu£¿q %K m¨¦moire de vies ant¨¦rieures %K taqammu£¿ %K transmigration %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0037768619833317