Descending with angels : islamic exorcism and psychiatry : a film monograph /

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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 dema...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Suhr, Christian, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Anthropology, creative practice and ethnography.
Subjects:
Psychoses > Treatment > Religious aspects > Islam.
Psychiatry and religion.
Spirit possession > Islam.
Jinn > Qurʼanic teaching.
Psychiatrie et religion.
Possession par les esprits > Islam.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
Spirit possession > Islam
Jinn > Qurʼanic teaching
Psychiatry and religion
Denmark > Religious life and customs.
Denmark
Electronic books
Online Access:Texto completo
Table 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 sacrifice6 <i>Ruqya</i>, psychotropics, and montage
  • 7. No healing here
  • Index.

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