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Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1: The Changing Face of Ecstatic Religions in Brazil -- 2: Gender, Race and Class: The Social Dimension of Religious Experience -- 3: Experiencing and Explaining Ecstatic Religions: Religious Experience Revisited -- 4: Agency, Cognition and Embodiment: Paradigms in the Mind/Body Debate -- 5: Conclusion: Spirit Possession as a Deictic Concept -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Abstract
Die Geisterbesessenheit ist ein weltweites Phänomen, das aus emischer Sicht als ein Zustand beschrieben wird, bei dem die Bindung zwischen Geist und Körper temporär gestört ist und ein fremdes Wesen den Körper beherrscht. In diesem Beitrag steht der menschliche Körper im Mittelpunkt. Am Beispiel der Initiation im Candomblé, einer afrobrasilianischen Religion, wird gezeigt, wie sowohl der Mensch als auch der Geist erlernen müssen, sich "korrekt", d. h. nach den Regeln der Gemeinschaft, zu bewegen. Anhand des Körperkonzepts im Candomblé wird außerdem erklärt, warum eine Person – nach der Vorstellung der Gläubigen – erst durch die Geisterbesessenheit bei der Initiation erschaffen wird.

El articulo investiga la herencia africana en los Andes peruanos, en la época colonial así como en tiempos recientes y actuales, 150 anos después del fin de la esclavitud. La autora presenta en la mayoría estudios peruanos y algunos trabajos basados en investigaciones realizadas en el Perú. Como punto de partida son observaciones en Cusco. Después de resumir la literatura existente, el presente trabajo crítica el supuesto general de que los esclavos africanos no sobrevivieron en los Andes y por eso no fueron transportados al Cusco. Por contrario, la autora argumenta que sí había esclavitud africana en los Andes, aunque no en números mayores por que el gobierno colonial decidió traer los esclavos a la costa por razones económicos e políticos. En su última sección, el articulo trata de los negritos, una danza popular en los Andes la que algunos investigadores conectan con la España musulmana y no con los esclavos africanos para limpiar la danza del estigma negativo de la esclavitud. La discusión de la literatura sobre esta danza lleva al debate sobre la imagen pública de los afro-peruanos hoy. ; The article investigates the African heritage in the Peruvian Andes, in the colonial time as well as today, 150 years after the end of slavery in Peru. The author mainly discusses Peruvian studies as well as some other research reports conducted in Peru though the starting point is some observations in Cusco. After an overview about the literature the article criticises the general assumption that African slaves did not survived in the Andes and were therefore not brought to the Cusco area. The author argues instead that there has been African slavery in the Andes though not in great numbers because the colonial government decided to move the slaves to the coast because of economical and political reasons. The last part of the article focuses on the negritos, a popular dance in the Andes which some scholars even connect to Moorish Spain instead to African slaves in order to clear the dance from the negative stigma of slavery. The discussion of the literature about this dance leads to the debate about the image of Afro-Peruvians today.

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This paper presents new research about spiritual experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to discuss the impact of spiritual experiences on people's lives and relationships. Building upon William James' four features of the "fruits" of religious experience as a conceptual frame, the paper presents data from two surveys in which participants narrated spiritual experiences and reflected on the impacts of those experiences. We start with a short presentation of James' ideas about the fruits of religious experience. The next section outlines four themes that have emerged from the narratives of spiritual experiences during the pandemic: impacts on people's relationships with their religious communities, shifts in one's subjective sense of spiritual connection and intuition, encounters with spiritual figures and near-death experiences, and interpretations of COVID-19 as a spiritual contagion. The final section broadens the discussion from the impact of specific spiritual experiences to include spiritual responses to the pandemic more generally, leading to a discussion of the experiences within the wider debate in fruits of religious experience.