The paranormal and popular culture : a postmodern religious landscape /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in religion.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I The return of the sacred. What can the paranormal in popular culture tell us about our relationship with the sacred in contemporary society?
- Paranormal medicine
- The right to a narrative: metamodernism, paranormal horror, and agency in The Cabin in the Woods
- The Dark Knight Rises: shamanic transformations in Gotham City
- These lovers are out of this world: sex, consent, and the rhetoric of conversion in abductee narratives
- The mystery of everything out there: Bigfoot and religion in the 21st century
- The haunters and the hunters: popular ghost hunting and the pursuit of paranormal experience
- Part II The spell of occulture. Religions of the red planet: fin de siècle Martian romances
- Paranormal women: the "sexual revolution" and female sexuality in Hammer Studios' Karnstein Trilogy
- "We're ready to believe you!" Spiritualism and the interpretation of paranormal experience in Ghostbusters (1984)
- Jesus and the undead: resurrected bodies in scripture and the zombie apocalypse
- Haunting the ghost of Mark Twain
- Accounts of high strangeness: a Brazilian perspective on the paranormal and popular culture
- How the Necronomicon became real: the ecology of a legend
- Miranda Barbour and the construction of a "satanic cult" murder
- "What would you do when . . .?": Ostensive play in the zombie apocalypse narrative
- Paranormal beliefs, new religious movements, and the New Age spiritual milieu
- Cryptofiction! Science fiction and the rise of cryptozoology
- When did fairies get wings?
- A contactee canon: Gray Barker's Saucerian Books.