The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures - 9781409444671

Taylor & Francis

With contributions from the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Canada, The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures attends to the paranormal as a position from which to critique dominant forms of knowledge production and spirituality. A rich exploration of everyday life practices, textual engagements and discourses relating to the paranormal, as well as the mediation, technology and art of paranormal activity, this book explores themes such as subcultures and mainstreaming, epistemological, methodological, and phenomenological questions, and the role of the paranormal in social change. > Despite the much vaunted \u2019end of religion\u2019 and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own \u2019spiritualities of life\u2019. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international scholars across the social sciences and humanities te