Trickster and the Paranormal

Name: Trickster and the Paranormal
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ISBN: 9781401000820

ISBN-10: 1401000827

ISBN-13: 9781401000820

Edition: 1999

Authors: George P. Hansen

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Paranormal and supernatural events have been reported for millennia. They have fostered history's most important cultural transformations (e.g., via the miracles of Moses, Jesus, Mohammed). Paranormal phenomena are frequently portrayed in the world's greatest art and literature, as well as in popular TV shows and movies. Most adults in the U.S. believe in them. Yet they have a marginal place in modern culture. No university departments are devoted to studying psychic phenomena. In fact, a panoply of scientists now aggressively denounces them.These facts present a deeply puzzling situation. But they become coherent after pondering the trickster figure, an archaic being found worldwide…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation LLC
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 564
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Acknowledgements	p. 11
Preface	p. 14
Introduction	p. 19

Overview	p. 33
An Overview of Tricksters From Mythology, Folklore, and Elsewhere	p. 35
Ernest Hartmann's Mental Boundaries	p. 48
Victor Turner's Concept of Anti-structure	p. 52

Overview	p. 73
Mysticism, Holy Madness, and Fools for God	p. 75
Shamanism and Its Sham	p. 86

Overview	p. 95
Michael Winkelman on Magico-religious Practitioners	p. 97
Max Weber, Charisma, and the Disenchantment of the World	p. 102
Cultural Change and the Paranormal	p. 110

Overview	p. 117
Prominent "Psychics"	p. 119
Conjurors and the Paranormal	p. 130
CSICOP and the Debunkers	p. 148
Small Groups and the Paranormal	p. 162
Alternative Religions and Psi	p. 171
Institutions and the Paranormal	p. 178
Anti-structure and the History of Psychical Research	p. 191
Unbounded Conditions	p. 210
Government Disinformation	p. 219
Hoaxes and the Paranormal	p. 247

Overview	p. 273
Reflexivity and the Trickster	p. 277
Laboratory Research on Psi	p. 309
Totemism and the Primitive Mind	p. 344
Literary Criticism, Meaning, and the Trickster	p. 368

Overview	p. 393
The Imagination	p. 395
Paranoia	p. 413
Conclusions	p. 422
Endnotes	p. 433
References	p. 481
Index	p. 535
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