Grasped by the Spirit: An Anthropological and Theological Understanding of an Existential Religious Experience
Religions May 19, 2026 Marten Van den Toren-Liefting
Over the course of 2021, I conducted ethnographic research among transnational Pentecostal communities in Madrid. During this research, ethnographic data on manifestations of the Spirit was collected. This data appeared to defy the perspective of a distant and critical observer. In this article I explore how an anthropologist might incorporate Tillich’s theology of the Spirit to make sense of...