{"product_id":"descending-with-angels-christian-suhr-9781526140319","title":"Descending with Angels: Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry: A Film Monograph","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian Suhr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526140314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526140319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Christian Suhr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068466753791,"sku":"9781526140319","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3946479f-5967-487b-8802-4e6a2f58b82e.jpg?v=1685419166","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/descending-with-angels-christian-suhr-9781526140319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}