Asymmetric legitimacy of possession healing in Islam
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2020-13-3-727-748
Abstract
The article, on the basis of Islamic Exorcism named Ruqya Sharia Study, examines the hypothesis of the legitimacy of using the methods of Islamic traditional medicine in the treatment of borderline conditions, despite the external irrationality of the process. This type of working with the phenomenon of possession is supposed to be a culturally-determined practice of treating neurosis and dissociative disorders, identical to psychoanalysis therapy. This comparison is based on a classic work of Claude Levi-Strauss “Structural Anthropology” and on the analysis of the rite of a shaman’s assistance in complicated births.
About the Author
D. S. Efremov
Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitrii S. Efremov - 1st year student of a Master program Psychology of the East: ethnicity, religion and intercultural communication/
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Efremov D.S. Asymmetric legitimacy of possession healing in Islam. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2020;13(3):727-748. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2020-13-3-727-748
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