The Paranormal and Popular Culture

A Postmodern Religious Landscape
Herausgeber: Caterine, Darryl; Morehead, John W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume serves as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g. novels, comic books, and films) as well as the cultural practices they inspire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138738577
• ISBN-10: 1138738573
• Artikelnr.: 55363788

Autorenporträt

Darryl Caterine is a professor of religious studies at Le Moyne College, USA. He is the author of Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America (2011), and a number of articles and chapters on the paranormal, including essays in The Brill Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, Nova Religio: The Journal of Emergent and Alternative Religions, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. John W. Morehead is an academic researcher and writer specializing in new religious movements as well as religion and popular culture. His writing includes a chapter on Matrixism for The Brill Handbook of Hyper-real Religions; entries on Paganism for The Handbook of Religion; and the co-editing and editing of volumes on religion and pop culture including The Undead and Theology, Joss Whedon and Religion, The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro, and Fantastic Fan Cultures and the Sacred. He blogs at www.TheoFantastique.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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