Taboo

Sacred Pain

Directed by Richard Slater-Jones
TV-MA
S2 • E6    Dec 8, 2003    60m
Taboo examines how cultures sometimes use pain in religious rites including tongue boring in Nepal, self stabbing and possession rites in Indonesia, and extreme body piercing and self-mutilation in Thailand.

Where to Watch Taboo - S2 • E6

Cast of Sacred Pain

  • Lance LewmanSelf - Narrator
  • Krishna ChandraSelf - Nepalese Villager
  • Wade DavisSelf - National Geographic Explorer In-Residence
  • Armando FavazzaSelf - Psychiatry Professor, University of Missouri
  • Ariel GlucklichSelf - Theology Professor, Georgetown University
  • Richard Slater-JonesDirector / Cinematographer

 

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