Showing posts with label Sociology of the Paranormal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sociology of the Paranormal. Show all posts

Writing in the Margins

Roy Wallis (
Ed.). On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge. Sociological Review Monograph no. 27. University of Keele, 1979.

Radical Perceptions

Bob Couttie. Forbidden Knowledge: The Paranormal Paradox. Lutterworth Press, 1988
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Myths of Reality

Simon Danser. Myths of Reality. Alternative Albion, 2005.

Occultism and Modernity

Alex Owen. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Corinna Treitel. A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Science in the New Age

Hess, David. Science in the New Age: The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers and American Culture. University Of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
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Alien Rock

Michael C Luckman. Alien Rock: The Rock and Roll Extraterrestrial Connection. Pocket Books, 2005.
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Technomyths


Erik Davis. Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Serpent's Tale, 1999.


Desperately Seeking Science

Charles F. Emmons. At the Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age. Wild Flower Press, 1997.


Children of Ezekiel

Michael Lieb. Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, The Crisis of Race and the Advent of End Time. Duke University Press, 1998.

Paranormal Progess

Jean G. Ritchie. Inside the Supernatural: An Investigation into the Paranormal. Fontana, 1992
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More Tea, Vicar?

Robert Wood. The Widow of Borley. Duckworth, 1992.


Legends of Blood

Wayne Bartlett and Flavia Idriceanu. Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth. Sutton, 2005.

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Deviance and Delusions

Robert E Bartholomew. Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms from Strangeness to Illness. University of Colorado Press, 2000.

Robert E Bartholomew. Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Headhunting Panics: a Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion. McFarland, 2001.

Looking from the Outside

            
  • Stephen E Braude. The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Damien Broderick. Outside the Gates of Science. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007.
  • Marilyn Isabelle Schmidt. Remote Viewing: A Theoretical Investigation of the State of the Art. Fenestra Books, 2007.
  • Harry Stapp. Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer. Springer, 2007.

Witches, Werewolves and Fairies

Claude Lecouteux. Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shape Shifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages. Inner Traditions, 2003.


The Politics of Truth

Jeremy Northcote. The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Sociological Account, Imprint Academic, 2007.

Witch Craze

Lyndal Roper. Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. Yale University Press, 2004.

Knowing about knowledge

Kendrick Frazier (ed.) Encounters with the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge and Belief. Prometheus, 1998.

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Intellectual Impostures: Post-Modern Philosophers' Abuse of Science. Profile Books, 1998.

Shaman to Scientist

James Houran (editor). From Shaman to Scientist; Essays on Humanity's Search for Spirits. The Scarecrow Press, 2004.
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Darkside Demons

Christopher Partridge. Understanding the Dark Side: Western Demonology, Satanic Panics and Alien Abduction. Chester Academic Press, 2006
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