The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780367731779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 300 str.

Darryl Caterine; John W. Morehead

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.