Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults
| Author | : Bill Ellis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
How tales we tell impact our day-to-day lives
Aliens Ghosts And Cults
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Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults
| Author | : Bill Ellis |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Legends |
| ISBN | : 9781617030017 |
The Messengers
| Author | : Mike Clelland |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2020-08-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781733980814 |
Without question, this is a classic by one of the most exciting new authors in the UFO field today. After reading it, your view of reality will never be the same.The owl has held a place of reverence and mystique throughout history. And as strange as this might seem, owls are also showing up in conjunction with the UFO experience.Mike Clelland has collected a wealth of first-hand accounts in which owls manifest in the highly charged moments that surround alien contact. There is a strangeness to these accounts that defy simple explanations. This book explores implications that go far beyond what more conservative researchers would dare consider.But the owl connection encompasses more than the UFO experience. It also includes profound synchronicities, ancient archetypes, dreams, shamanistic experiences, personal transformation, and death. From the mythic legends of our ancient past to the first-hand accounts of the UFO abductee, owls are playing some vital role.This is also a deeply personal story. It is an odyssey of self-discovery as the author grapples with his own owl and UFO encounters. What plays out is a story of transformation with the owl at the heart of this journey.
Weird Science:
| Author | : Michael White |
| Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 1999-07-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780380805051 |
Offers lucid, scientifically based explanations for a wide range of unexplained and paranormal phenomena, including alien abduction, zombies, hauntings, telekinesis, and multiple dimensions. Original.
Haunting Experiences
| Author | : Diane Goldstein |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2007-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0874216818 |
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Stories about Stories
| Author | : Brian Attebery |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2014-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0199316074 |
The first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales.
Lucifer Ascending
| Author | : Bill Ellis |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2021-05-11 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 081318293X |
Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as "occult," from commonplace habits such as carrying a rabbit's foot for good luck or using a Ouija board, to more esoteric traditions, such as the use of spell books. In particular, Ellis shows how the occult has been a common element in youth culture for hundreds of years. Using materials from little known publications and archives, Lucifer Ascending details the true social function of individuals' dabbling with the occult. In his survey of what Ellis terms "vernacular occultism," the author is poised on a middle ground between a skeptical point of view that defines belief in witchcraft and Satan as irrational and an interpretation of witchcraft as an underground religion opposing Christianity. Lucifer Ascending examines the occult not as an alternative to religion but rather as a means for ordinary people to participate directly in the mythic realm.
Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion
| Author | : Dirk Johannsen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 391 |
| Release | : 2020-01-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 900442167X |
Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion presents the aesthetics of narrativity in religious contexts by approaching narrative acts as situated modes of engaging with reality, equally shaped by the immersive character of the stories told and the sensory qualities of their performances. Introducing narrative cultures as an integrative framework of analysis, the volume builds a bridge between classical content-based approaches to narrative sources and the aesthetic study of religions as constituted by sensory and mediated practices. Studying stories in conjunction with the role that performative acts of storytelling play in the cultivation of the senses, the contributors explore the efficacy of storytelling formats in narrative cultures from ancient times until today, in regions and cultures across the globe. Contributors are: Stefan Binder, Arianna Borrelli, Markus Altena Davidsen, Laura Feldt, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Dirk Johannsen, Jens Kreinath, Isabel Laack, Martin Lehnert, Brigitte Luchesi, Bastiaan van Rijn, Caroline Widmer, Annette Wilke, Katharina Wilkens.
What Happens Next?
| Author | : Gail de Vos |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2012-06-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
This fascinating book uncovers the history behind urban legends and explains how the contemporary iterations of familiar fictional tales provide a window into the modern concerns—and digital advancements—of our society. What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-up to Libraries Unlimited's Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7–12, author Gail de Vos revisits popular urban legends, and examines the impact of media—online, social, and broadcast—on their current iterations. What Happens Next? Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture traces the evolution of contemporary legends from the tradition of oral storytelling to the sharing of stories on the Internet and TV. The author examines if the popularity of contemporary legends in the media has changed the form, role, and integrity of familiar legends. In addition to revisiting some of the legends highlighted in her first book, de Vos shares new tales in circulation which she sees as a direct result of technological advancements.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures
| Author | : Olu Jenzen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 2016-03-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317042182 |
Despite the much vaunted ’end of religion’ and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own ’spiritualities of life’. 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 to question how and why people are seeking meaning in the realm of the paranormal, a heretofore subjugated knowledge. With contributions from the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Canada, this ground-breaking book 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, as well as epistemological, methodological, and phenomenological questions, and the role of the paranormal in social change. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures constitutes an essential resource for those interested in the academic study of cultural engagements with paranormality; it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, popular culture, sociology, cultural geography, literature, film and music.
