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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Christian Suhr, Suhr Christian
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781526140319
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4031-9
• Pages: 240
• Thèmes: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography; Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography; Anthropology Creative Practice; Anthropology, Creative Practic
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres religions; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; 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