The paranormal and popular culture : a postmodern religious landscape /: a postmodern religious landscape. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Darryl Caterine, John W. Morehead.
• Editors: Caterine, Darryl V
• Contents: Introduction Darryl Caterine Part I: The Return of the Sacred 1 What Can the Paranormal in Popular Culture Tell Us About Our Relationship with the Sacred in Contemporary Society? Madeleine Castro 2 Paranormal Medicine Charles F. Emmons 3 The Right to a Narrative: Metamodernism, Paranormal Horror, and Agency in The Cabin in the Woods Linda C. Ceriello and Greg Dember 4 The Dark Knight Rises: Shamanic Transformations in Gotham City Jack Hunter 5 These Lovers Are Out of This World: Sex, Consent, and the Rhetoric of Conversion in Abductee Narratives Elizabeth Lowry 6 The Mystery of Everything Out There: Bigfoot and Religion in the Twenty-First Century Joshua Paddison 7 The Haunters and the Hunters: Popular Ghost Hunting and the Pursuit of Paranormal Experience Leo Ruickbie Part II: The Spell of Occulture 8 Religions of the Red Planet: Fin de Siècle Martian Romances Christa Shusko 9 Paranormal Women: the "Sexual Revolution" and Female Sexuality in Hammer Studios’ Karnstein Trilogy Jay Daniel Thompson 10 "We’re Ready to Believe You!" Spiritualism and the Interpretation of Paranormal Experience in Ghostbusters (1984) Matthew N. Anderson and Collin L. Brown 11 Jesus and The Undead: Resurrected Bodies in Scripture and the Zombie Apocalypse Kelly J. Murphy 12 Haunting the Ghost of Mark Twain Ann M. Ryan 13 Accounts of High Strangeness: A Brazilian Perspective on the Paranormal and Popular Culture Leonardo Martins 14 How the Necronomicon Became Real: The Ecology of a Legend Joseph P. Laycock 15 Miranda Barbour and the Construction of a "Satanic Cult" Murder Daniel Linford 16 "What Would You Do When…?": Ostensive Play in the Zombie Apocalypse Narrative Brent C. Augustus 17 Paranormal Beliefs, New Religious Movements and the New Age Spiritual Milieu James R. Lewis and Sverre Andreas Fekjan 18 Cryptofiction! Science-Fiction and the Rise of Cryptozoology Justin Mullis 19 When Did Fairies Get Wings? Simon Young 20 A Contactee Canon: Gray Barker’s Saucerian Books Gabriel McKee Conclusion John W. Morehead
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 130; Parapsychology; Popular culture; Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351731812; 9781351731829; 9781351731805; 9781315184661
• Related ISBNs: 9781138738577
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