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The paranormal and popular culture : a postmodern religious landscape
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,, 2019 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in religion
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| Umfang: | 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) |
| Gedruckte Ausgabe: | Erscheint auch als:
The paranormal and popular culture. - London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. - xiii, 300 Seiten
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| ISBN: | 1315184664 9781315184661 9781351731829 1351731823 9781351731812 1351731815 9781351731805 1351731807 9781138738577 1138738573 |
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| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315184661 |
| wird zitiert von: | 1 Titel im Zitationsindex COCI |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |