Over here, every religion does exorcism.

http://www.catholic-tube.com/fr-rufus-catholic-charismatic-and-exorcist

From the comments:

without having to medicalize their dumbassery? You're the one who brought up Foucault. Can't a person be unfit for office by virtue of good old fashioned stupidity & magical thinking? Freud's term was "omnipotence of thoughts," and it was his position that all people go through a developmental stage where they can't or choose not to distinguish between their desires and natural causality. In normal development this takes the form of play-acting, and the point is such thinking is quite normal & non-pathological. It also happens to be incorrect, in a pragmatic view of how the world works. Adults are able to return to or cling to that state of mind without our needing to invoke some actual medical malfunction in their brains – Freud would call such people neurotic if they had gone as far as to form an emotional cathexis on their play-acting, but Freudian neurosis is well within the normal, healthy range of human mental development. In other words, I'm not calling Jindal schizophrenic or delusional in a clinical sense; I'm merely saying he made a bad choice by accepting a silly notion of how the world works as more or less literally true.

On Catholic doctrine, my only point was that Catholics by and large would not feel offended by someone ridiculing the idea of exorcism, and so Scott's idea that Catholics would be alienated by ridiculing Jindal for this experience doesn't jibe with what I would expect to see happen. Do you agree? Would you expect to see US Catholics riot in the streets if someone dissed exorcism?

belief in conversion experience which at least seems to have informed the Iraq policy.

Carter tried to take America down a path of penitence & self-sacrifice, very much his brand of Xtianity, but instead America wanted the 80s.

The mix of religion & foreign policy I don't like is any mix where religious doctrine and/or religious metaphysics trump science & history on questions of fact regarding what is going on in the world. Religion as a source of moral authority & strength is fine; a distinction millions of religious people make effortlessly in the modern world.

We've gotten to posting the official steps to an exorcism!

The moral is that arguing brings out some interesting stuff even when the people doing it aren't doing it for the right reasons.

Actually that's kind of a motto for this place.

I am Catholic and I can't tell you how to properly perform an exorcism.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't attempt one if the situation called for it. If you and I were riding in an elevator and you suddenly became possessed by demons you have my word I would try to exorcise those demons.

I am also a lapsed Catholic so I don't remember too many of the prayers. In a time of stress I would have to rely on the Hail Mary and the Our Father.

So, just like Jindal, I would do what I could to exorcise the evil spirits even though I knew my feeble attempt didn't meet the standards set by the Vatican.

Also, Jindal and his bunch of amateur exorcists actually succeeded. Through their efforts, the evil spirits possessing their friend were exorcised from her body & soul. Good for them.

Further, the Hail Mary is a potent prayer. It is a big part of the Rosary and visions of the Virgin Mary are very important to Catholics [Fatima, Guadalupe, Lourdes] . You dismiss it too easily.