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Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing: Online Documentary Film Program and Debate (week 3)

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Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing: Online Documentary Film Program
and Debate (week 3)



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Please join our third biweekly webinar (8 August 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),
debate by researcher and filmmaker Dr. Christian Suhr (Aarhus University), and
discussant Dr. Paola Esposito (University of Oxford).



Film presentation




Descending with Angels

Christian Suhr, 2013, 75 minutes, Denmark.




Synopsis



Islamic exorcism or psychotropic medication? Descending with Angels explores
two highly different solutions to the same problem: namely Danish Muslims who
are possessed by invisible spirits, called jinn.



A Palestinian refugee living in the city of Aarhus has been committed to
psychiatric treatment after a severe case of jinn possession which caused him
to destroy the interior of a mosque, crash several cars, and insult a number
of people. He sees no point in psychotropic medication since his illness has
already been treated with Quranic incantations. A psychiatrist and nurse try
to understand his point of view but find that even further medication is
needed. In the meantime a local imam battles a stubborn jinn-spirit of Iraqi
origin and tries to explain the Muslims of Aarhus that they should stop
worrying so much about jinn, magic, and other mundane affairs since nothing
can harm anyone except by the permission of God.



The film compares two systems of treatment that despite vast differences both
share a view of healing as operating through submission of faith to an
external non-human agency namely God or psychotropic medicine.

After the film, a debate with the presence of the filmmaker.

A link will be provided to all participants after the introduction debates to
watch the film online or via screen sharing through the moderators screen.



This webinar will be held on Zoom.



Time

August 8, 2020 10:00 AM London




Registration



https://uws.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6XcISVSiTHSZpMl8n0jUGw



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



| Chief Editor, Anthropology of the Contemporary MiddleEast and Central
Eurasia, SeanKingston.

| Series Editor, The Anthropology of Persianate
Societies, SeanKingston.

| Series Editor, Iranian and Persian Gulf
Studies, LIT Verlag.



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