Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience - Couverture souple

Hunter, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786771098 ISBN 13 : 9781786771094

Editeur : White Crow Books, 2019

Synopsis

We are at a critical moment in the history of humankind's relationship with the Earth, and all the species that co-inhabit with us. This is a time of climate change, species loss and ecological collapse on a scale that has never been seen before. New ways of thinking will be required if we hope to overcome these global problems and develop a more harmonious relationship between the human and non-human worlds. In the spirit of creative exploration this book suggests that approaches emerging from the study of (and engagement with) the super-natural may ultimately help us to re-connect with the natural, and in so doing develop innovative approaches to confronting the eco-crisis.

Greening the Paranormal explores parallels between anomalistics (the study of the paranormal in all its guises, incorporating parapsychology, paranthropology, cryptozoology, religious studies, and so on), and ecology (the study of living systems), not just for the sake of exploring interesting intersections (of which there are many), but for the essential task of contributing towards a much broader - necessary - change of perspective concerning our relationship to the living planet. The chapters collected in this book demonstrate that we have much to learn from exploring the ecology of extraordinary experience.

FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM

Paul Devereux, Cody Meyocks, Nancy Wissers, Amba J. Sepie, Lance M. Foster, Jacob W. Glazier, Christine Simmonds-Moore, Mark A. Schroll, Viktória Duda, Maya Ward, Simon Wilson, David Luke, Brian Taylor, Silvia Mutterle, Susan Marsh, Timothy Grieve-Carlson, Elorah Fangrad, Rick Fehr, and Christopher Laursen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of ecology, religion and the paranormal. He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and a Research Fellow with the Parapsychology Foundation, New York. He is the founder and editor of "Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal", the author of "Spirits, Gods and Magic: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the Supernatural" (2019) and "Engaging the Anomalous" (2018). He is the editor of "Strange Dimensions: A Paranthropology Anthology" (2015), "Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal" (2016), and is co-editor with Dr. David Luke of "Talking With the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds" (2014). To find out more about his work visit www.jack-hunter.webstarts.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Crow Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786771098
• ISBN 13: 9781786771094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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