Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages)
ISBN:
1315184664
,
9781351731829
,
1351731823
,
9781351731812
,
1351731815
,
9781315184661
,
9781351731805
,
1351731807
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in religion
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138738577
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The paranormal and popular culture London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ISBN 9781138738577
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Parapsychologie
;
Massenkultur
;
Religion
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.4324/9781315184661
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