Message posted on 15/07/2020

Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing: documentary film presentation and debate (week 2)

Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing

Webinar Registration

Please join our second biweekly webinar (25 July 2020), documentary film
presentation and debate organized by the Network of the Anthropology of the
Middle East and Central Eurasia of EASA in collaboration with the Religion and
Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University.

Introduction to the program by Dr. P. Khosronejad (Western Sydney University),
and debate by filmmaker Dr. R. Canals (University of Barcelona), researcher of
film Dr. R. Sarr (University of Oxford) and discussant Dr. R. Blanes
(University of Gothenburg).

Film presentation:

Chasing Shadows

Roger Canals, 2019, 70 minutes, UK / Spain.

Synopsis

This film is directed by Roger Canals and filmed in Guinea-Bissau based on
Ramon Sarr and Marina Temudos research, offers an intimate portrait of a
prophetic movement. In Balanta, the movement is called Kyangyang, a word
meaning "shadows", although its followers also call themselves Children of
God. The Kyangyang prophetic movement was born in the early 1980s among
Balanta farmers in rural areas of Guinea-Bissau, after a period of ecological
and political crisis and after a young woman called Ntombikte, who died in
2013, started to prophesize and heal after receiving messages from God through
her ancestors. She had a massive following among young men and women. Much
like the prophetess, her followers could communicate with their ancestors and
then either transmit messages from the high God through prophetic art and
writing, glossolalia, and divination or heal in collective and individual
ceremonies. The film offers a visual reflection on their unique religious
creativity, where art, writing and body techniques of spirituality are
intimately entangled. In the mid-1980s the Kyangyangwas repressed by the state
and entered into a deep decline. In 2017, Canals, Sarro and Temudo went to
film the remaining living members of the movement. But what they found,
unexpectedly, was its revitalization among young people. This film is the
testimony of their encounter with old and new Kyangyang, capturing some of the
many forms that spiritual shadows can take depending on whether you look at
them from a traditionalist, a Muslim, a Catholic or an Evangelical
perspective.

This webinar will be held on Zoom.

To register please visit:

https://uws.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SWswR_jCSG2Zeb2iBl75Bw



Dr. Pedram Khosronejad | Adjunct Professor

Religion and Society Research Cluster | School of Social Sciences

E:
P.Khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au


Fellow | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University



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