Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History, Hardback Book

The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History Hardback

Edited by Dennis Waskul, Marc Eaton

Hardback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us.

But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as inconsequential, or even embarrassing.

The editors and contributors to The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History have made a concerted effort to understand encounters with ghosts and the supernatural that have remain present and flourished.

Featuring folkloric researchers examining the cultural value of such beliefs and practices, sociologists who acknowledge the social and historical value of the supernatural, and enthusiasts of the mystical and uncanny, this volume includes a variety of experts and interested observers using first-hand ethnographic experiences and historical records. The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History seeks to understand the socio-cultural and socio-historical contexts of the supernatural.

This volume takes the supernatural as real because belief in it has fundamentally shaped human history.

It continues to inform people's interpretations, actions, and identities on a daily basis.

The supernatural is an indelible part of our social world that deserves sincere scholarly attention.

Contributors include: Janet Baldwin, I'Nasah Crockett, William Ryan Force, Rachael Ironside, Tea Krulos, Joseph Laycock, Stephen L.

Muzzatti, Scott Scribner, Emma Smith, Jeannie Banks Thomas, and the editors

Information

Save 6%

£89.00

£83.45

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information