The Paranormal and Popular Culture A Postmodern Religious Landscape 1st Edition by Darryl Caterine, John Morehead ISBN 1351731815 9781351731812

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ISBN 10: 1351731815

ISBN 13: 9781351731812

Author:  Darryl Caterine, John W. Morehead 

The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape 1st Edition: 

Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving 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.

After an introduction analyzing the paranormal’s relationship to religion and entertainment, the book presents essays exploring its spiritual significance in a postmodern society; its (post)modern representation in literature and film; and its embodiment in a number of contemporary cultural practices. Contributors from a number of discplines and cultural contexts address issues such as the shamanistic aspects of Batman and lesbianism in vampire mythology.

Covering many aspects of the paranormal and its effect on popular culture, this book is an important statement in the field. As such, it will be of utmost interest to scholars of religious studies as well as media, communication, and cultural studies.

 

The Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape 1st Edition Table of contents:

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

 

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