This could be a hot take, but I used to be deathly afraid of all things related to possession/demons while religious because I thought it was a real threat which required me to be vigilant (sounds extremely absurd I know). But my god did it all completely change the minute I started deconstructing my beliefs and thinking about what actually happens in the real world. Which leads me to believe these types of movies are only popular because of Christianity’s ubiquity. I’m sure other religions have better illustrations of the paranormal that would be cool to see, but all we have is the product of centuries of colonialism. Because even movies with those types of illustrations are extremely orientalist. Bleh just another example of mayos bungling another aspect of culture for everyone else

This also could just be me being a complete buzzkill, but psychological/cosmic horror is where it’s at 💯

      • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 months ago

        There’s technically no monastic system in Islam (Although you’d be surprised how close you can get to something thats technically banned). But there also isn’t in most forms of protestantism as I understand.

        What we do have is widespread belief in possession, and (sometimes) professional exorcists (Raqi) who combat evil magic. And their system is basically the same as the protestant one, including cases of abuse of the mentally ill and physical violence.