Descending with Angels
Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry: a Film Monograph
Seiten
2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4591-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4591-8 (ISBN)
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. -- .
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. -- .
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. -- .
Christian Suhr is a filmmaker, Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Eye & Mind MSc Programme in Visual Anthropology at Aarhus University -- .
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 -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-4591-X / 152614591X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-4591-8 / 9781526145918 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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