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Doubting Ghosts

- Paranormal Investigation and the Paradoxes of Belief
Af: Michele Hanks Engelsk Paperback

Doubting Ghosts

- Paranormal Investigation and the Paradoxes of Belief
Af: Michele Hanks Engelsk Paperback
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Based on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or ‘ghost hunters’: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena – in a scientific, secular and rational fashion – many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal. What, then, does it mean to regularly see ghosts and yet to not believe ghosts are real?

Examining the manner in which the scientific approach adopted by investigators produces profound doubts about the existence of the paranormal, the meaning of science, and the nature of modernity, the author demonstrates that doubt itself is central to experiences of secularity and that doubt can constitute a foundation for long-term engagements with the paranormal. Thus, paranormal investigators are able to sustain a relationship, albeit an uneasy one, with the paranormal while maintaining a commitment to a scientific, secular, and rational worldview.

A contribution to understandings of doubt, science, religion, and disenchantment, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology.

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Based on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or ‘ghost hunters’: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena – in a scientific, secular and rational fashion – many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal. What, then, does it mean to regularly see ghosts and yet to not believe ghosts are real?

Examining the manner in which the scientific approach adopted by investigators produces profound doubts about the existence of the paranormal, the meaning of science, and the nature of modernity, the author demonstrates that doubt itself is central to experiences of secularity and that doubt can constitute a foundation for long-term engagements with the paranormal. Thus, paranormal investigators are able to sustain a relationship, albeit an uneasy one, with the paranormal while maintaining a commitment to a scientific, secular, and rational worldview.

A contribution to understandings of doubt, science, religion, and disenchantment, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 194
ISBN-13: 9781032655789
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 103265578X
Kategori: Populærkultur
Udg. Dato: 28 apr 2025
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 156mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 28 apr 2025
Forfatter(e): Michele Hanks
Forfatter(e) Michele Hanks

Kategori Populærkultur

ISBN-13 9781032655789

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 194

Udgave

Længde 14mm

Bredde 234mm

Højde 156mm

Udg. Dato 28 apr 2025

Oplagsdato 28 apr 2025

Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd