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
Descending with angels [PDF ebook]
Islamic exorcism and psychiatry: a film monograph
Descending with angels [PDF ebook]
Islamic exorcism and psychiatry: a film monograph
Compre este e-book e ganhe mais 1 GRÁTIS!
Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 240 ● ISBN 9781526140326 ● Editora Manchester University Press ● Publicado 2019 ● Carregável 3 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 8019615 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
Requer um leitor de ebook capaz de DRM