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Possession and exorcism in the Muslim migrant context
Ethnicities. 2020. Vol. 20. No. 4. P. 731–751.
Oparin D.
This paper is based on the fieldwork carried out in Moscow among Muslim migrants. The research is focused on the practices of ritual healing and expelling djinn in the context of migration and urban post-secular environment. I am interested in self-reflection and introspection of all the participants of the treatment – a mullah, his patients, their relatives, and even opponents to these Muslim practices. In this study, it is not my intention to delve too deeply into the analysis of what possession is or determine its causes, but rather to look at specific situations from my field work through the lens of modernity, morality, authority and precarity, in order to attempt to present the experience of possession and my informants’ struggle against it in all its richness and complexity.
Research target:
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Priority areas:
humanitarian
Language:
English
Publication based on the results of:
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