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1 online resource (xviii, 471 pages) : illustrations |
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Ashgate research companion |
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Ashgate research companion.
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| Contents |
List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Sally R. Munt -- Part I. Paranormal epistemologies: Preface; 1. Haunted Culture: The Persistence of Belief in the Paranormal / Christopher Partridge; 2. The Ghost in the Machine: Spirit and Technology / John Harvey; 3. Paranormal Cultural Practices / Annette Hill; 4. Extraordinary Experiences with UFOs / David Clarke; 5. Ghosts in the Body: Infections, Genes, and the Re-enchantment of Biology / Robert Peckham; 6. Sceptic Culture: Traditions of Disbelief in New Mexico / William J. Dewan; 7. 'Paranormal Science' from America to Italy: A Case of Cultural Homogenisation / Andrea Molle and Christopher D. Bader; 8. Making Sense of the Paranormal: A Platonic Context for Research Methods / Angela Voss; 9. Everyday Ghosts: A Matter of Believing in Belonging / Abby Day; 10. 'A Giant Bedsheet with the Holes Cut Out': Expectations and Discussions of the Appearance of Ghost / Paul Cowdell; 11. Interpreting Death and the Afterlife in US Paranormal Reality Television Programmes and Online Fan Groups / Diane Dobry -- Part II. The paranormal and social change: Preface; 12. Wilhelm Reich and the Etheric Warriors / Sarah Jane Sloane; 13. Other Senses: The Politics of Mediumship / Esther Peeren; 14. 'There's Something in My House': Television and the Politics of the Paranormal / Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi; 15. Social Realism and the Paranormal in Scandinavian Fiction / Olu Jenzen; 16. Immersed in Illusion, Haunted by History: Marisa Carnesky's Ghost Train / Josephine Machon; 17. Ireland the Anomalous State: Paranormal Cultures and the Irish Literary and Political Revival / Wendy E. Cousins; 18. Mexico's La Ilustracón Espírita: Towards a Transatlantic Understanding of a Spiritualist Archive / María del Pilar Blanco; 19. Visions of the Paranormal: Representations of Psychic Women and Ghosts in Television and Film / Karin Beeler |
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Part III. Paranormal phenomenologies: Preface; 20. The Gizmo and the Glitch: Telepathy, Ocular Philosophy, and other Extensions of Sensation / Kristen Gallerneaux Brooks; 21. Paranormal Art History: Psychometry and the Afterlife of Objects, a Canadian Case Study / Jennifer Fisher; 22. Music and the Paranormal / Melvyn J. Willin; 23. Conjuring the Spirits: Suggestion, Magic, and the Cognitive Approach to Performance Creation / Jon Armstrong; 24. Trance, Transfiguration and Trust: Spiritualism in Western Australia / Janet Baldwin; 25. A Phenomenology of the Ghosthunting Scene in the USA and in Germany / Gerhard Mayer; 26. The GHost Project: Manifesting Ghosts through Visual Art and Creative Research / Sarah Sparkes; 27. The Monsters of Hackney and Walthamstow Marshes: The Haunting of East London's Lower Lea Valley by Prehistoric Ghosts / Gareth E. Rees; 28. A Short Bestiary of Creatures from the Web / Line Henriksen -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures constitutes an essential resource for those interested in the academic study of cultural engagements with paranormality; it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, popular culture, sociology, cultural geography, literature, film and music |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title page of print version |
| Subject |
Parapsychology -- Social aspects
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Parapsychology -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Social change -- Religious aspects.
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Parapsychology -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Parapsychology -- Social aspects
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Social change -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jenzen, Olu, editor
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Munt, Sally, editor
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| ISBN |
9781785394324 |
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1785394320 |
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