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Understanding the unknown / edited by Laura Thursby.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supernatural (Theology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The supernatural - that which exists beyond the scope of science or the laws of nature - has long captivated our attention. The supernatural upsets our understandings of the rational and forces upon us a recognition that there exists something more, something beyond the veil that we cannot quite grasp. A critical reflection of this category raises some very serious questions for interdisciplinary research, which are explored throughout this volume: How do experiences of the supernatural function temporally and cross-culturally? How have ideas about the supernatural influenced well-known historical figures? How has the supernatural been used in fiction as a literary or narrative device? What happens to the supernatural in the supposedly rational and disenchanted modern experience? How does it shape the beliefs and practices of actual people? And why is it important to devote energy to its study if it remains a category forever beyond our realm of comprehension?
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Laura Thursby
- Hearing the Dead : Supernatural Presence in the World of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) in Reference to the Balikligöl Statue / Alistair Coombs
- Making the Secular Sacred, or the Sacred Secular…? Other-Worldly Sacrum in This-Worldly Philosophy of Confucius / Paweł Zygadło
- Gothic Meets Neorealism: Trauma, Ghosts and Broken Community in Tommaso Landolfi’s An Autumn Story / Julia Brühne
- The Solipsist as Satanist: A Philosophical Reading of Chesterton’s ‘The Crime of Gabriel Gale’ / Regan Lance Reitsma
- Asemic Occultism: The Magical System of Austin Spare’s Sigils / Riikka Ala-Hakula
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Open-Source Occultism in the Age of Information / Cavan McLaughlin
- The Trauma of Missing Time in Alien Abduction / Laura Thursby
- Paranormal/Supernatural Experiences and Loss / Camilla Pagani.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84888-439-7
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781848884397 DOI
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