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Title The Ashgate research companion to paranormal cultures / edited by Olu Jenzen and Sally R. Munt.

Publication Info. Burlington [Vermont] : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (43 entries) : 52 images ; digital files.
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Series Ashgate research companion
Ashgate research companion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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 --
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.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
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.
Form Also available in print version.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on title page of print version.
Subject Parapsychology -- Social aspects.
Parapsychology -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Social change -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jenzen, Olu, editor.
Munt, Sally, editor.
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Added Title Research companion to paranormal cultures.
Other Form: Print version: 1409444678 9781409444671 (DLC) 2013009599 xviii, 471 pages : illustrations
ISBN 9781785394324 electronic version
9781409444671 print : alkaline paper

 
    
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