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- W336604420 abstract "Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken and Joseph O. Baker. Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunters, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2010. 264 pp. $20.00. ISBN: 978-0-8147-9135-6 Drawing on data from Baylor Religion Survey project, Paranormal America investigates various cultures of belief and demographics of believers. Avoiding debates over evidentiality, authors provide a study that is scholarly and readable, open to a wide audience of readers. They supplement survey data with a number of ethnographic-styled studies of specific subcultures, including spending night in a purportedly haunted cafe with medium and psychic in tow, and camping with a group of Bigfoot hunters. For scholar, survey material and discussion thereof are most interesting, whereas latter stories of encounters with members of various subcultures will interest casual reader much more keenly. Paranormal America is an important book not only for its impressive organization of data, but it brings a light to bear upon topics that have been largely ignored, if not outright mocked, by academy. The authors illustrate, however, that while various beliefs discussed are considered to be fringe elements, belief in them is actually widespread, and in fact quite normal. One of authors' main findings--that it is in fact not deviant in any way to believe in given that 68% of Americans expressed a belief in at least one area of phenomena--may surprise many readers unfamiliar with this field of inquiry. Hopefully, this book will illustrate, if nothing else, that there is a wide range of belief and experience among mainstream population that requires academic attention. One of Paranormal America's key aims is to derive a clearer understanding of demographics of believers in paranormal. Throughout book, though, authors struggle with their findings, as it appears that no solution can be applied across board: Perhaps our most important finding is that we can not use simplistic, broad-brushed explanations to understand paranormal (75). It is not necessarily the paranormal that is difficult to understand, however. Following public (mis)understanding of term authors have chosen to lump together a wide array of very different beliefs. Items surveyed include Bigfoot, Atlantis, UFOs, ghosts, psychics, Nostradamus, and astrology, among others. The authors struggle with a definition for just what constitutes paranormal, and ultimately justify such a broad array of beliefs in that these all might appear together in an average bookstore. They suggest (p. 24 and passim) that those beliefs and experiences which fall outside of both scientific and religious acceptance constitute thereby eliminating traditional religious beliefs such as angels or faith healing. …" @default.
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