Descending With Angels - Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry: A Film Monograph

This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and how Muslim patients are transformed through the treatments offered by mosques and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states.

List of contents

1 Invisibility and Islamic healing in the West
2 How to take jinn possession seriously
3 Jinn exorcisms on YouTube
4 How to become a patient
5 Healing through sacrifice
6 Ruqya, psychotropics, and montage
7 No healing here
Index

About the author

Christian Suhr is a filmmaker, Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Eye & Mind MSc Programme in Visual Anthropology at Aarhus University

Summary

This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and how Muslim patients are transformed through the treatments offered by mosques and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Christian Suhr, Suhr Christian
• Assisted by: Paul Henley (Editor), Andrew Irving (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781526145918
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4591-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography; Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography; Anthropology, Creative Practic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Islam, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Anthropology, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Human biology, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies, Medical Anthropology