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The paranormal and the politics of truth : a sociological account / Jeremy Northcote.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Northcote, Jeremy, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Parapsychology--Social aspects.
Parapsychology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (91 pages)
Place of Publication:
Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, [2007].
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This book is based on the author's ten-year research into the politics of belief surrounding paranormal ideas. Through a detailed examination of the participants, issues, strategies and underlying factors that constitute the contemporary paranormal debate, the book explores the struggle surrounding the status of paranormal phenomena. It examines, on the one hand, how the principal arbiters of religious and scientific truths - the Church and the academic establishment - reject paranormal idea...
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-229).
ISBN:
9781845404116
1845404114
9781845404109
1845404106
OCLC:
845257917

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