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The paranormal and popular culture : a postmodern religious landscape / edited by Darryl Caterine and John W. Morehead.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parapsychology.
- Popular culture.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 300 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalised the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g. novels, comic books, and films) as well as the cultural practices they inspire. After an introduction analysing the paranormal's relationship to religion and entertainment, the book presents essays exploring its spiritual significance in a postmodern society; its (post)modern representation in literature and film; and its embodiment in a number of contemporary cultural practices.
- Contents:
- What can the paranormal in popular culture tell us about our relationship with the sacred in contemporary society? / Madeleine Castro
- Paranormal medicine / Charles F. Emmons
- The right to a narrative : metamodernism, paranormal horror, and agency in the cabin in the woods / Linda C. Ceriello, Greg Dember
- The Dark Knight Rises : shamanic transformations in Gotham City / Jack Hunter
- These lovers are out of this world : sex, consent, and the rhetoric of conversion in abductee narratives / Elizabeth Lowry
- The mystery of everything out there : Bigfoot and religion in the 21st century / Joshua Paddison
- The haunters and the hunters : popular ghost hunting and the pursuit of paranormal experience / Leo Ruickbie
- Religions of the red planet : fin de sieÌcle Martian romances / Christa Shusko
- Paranormal women : the "sexual revolution" and female sexuality in Hammer Studios' Karnstein trilogy / Jay Daniel Thompson
- "We're ready to believe you!" Spiritualism and the interpretation of paranormal experience in Ghostbusters (1984) / Matthew N. Anderson, Collin L. Brown
- Jesus and the undead : resurrected bodies in Scripture and the zombie apocalypse / Kelly J. Murphy
- Haunting the ghost of Mark Twain / Ann M. Ryan
- Accounts of high strangeness : a Brazilian perspective on the paranormal and popular culture / Leonardo Martins
- How the Necronomicon became real : the ecology of a legend / Joseph P. Laycock
- Miranda Barbour and the construction of a "satanic cult" murder / Daniel Linford
- "What would you do when...?" : ostensive play in the zombie apocalypse narrative / Brent C. Augustus
- Paranormal beliefs, new religious movements, and the New Age spiritual milieu / James R. Lewis, Sverre Andreas Fekjan
- Cryptofiction! Science fiction and the rise of cryptozoology / Justin Mullis
- When did fairies get wings? / Simon Young
- A contactee canon : Gray Barker's Saucerian books / Gabriel McKee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Paranormal and popular culture
- ISBN:
- 9781138738577
- 1138738573
- OCLC:
- 1066081521
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