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Descending with Angels - Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry: a Film Monograph (Hardcover)
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Descending with Angels - Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry: a Film Monograph (Hardcover)
Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
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Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being
treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in
a psychiatric hospital. Through rich filmic and textual case
studies, he shows how the bodies and souls of Muslim patients
become a battlefield between the moral demands of Islam and the
psychiatric institutions of European nation-states. The book
reveals how both psychiatric and Islamic healing work to produce
relief from pain, and also entail an ethical transformation of the
patient and the cultivation of religious and secular values through
the experience of pain. Creatively exploring the analytic
possibilities provided by the use of a camera, both text and film
show how disruptive ritual techniques are used in healing to
destabilise individual perceptions and experiences of agency, which
allows patients to submit to the invisible powers of psychotropic
medicine or God. -- .
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