Description
Sensing Spirits
Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts
Interactionist Currents Series
Author: Eaton Marc A.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Sensing Spirits:
Keywords
Paranormal Investigation; Paranormal Investigators; sociology; Paranormal Beliefs; cultural studies; Ghost Hunters; subcultures; Paranormal Claims; ethnography; Paranormal Explanation; interviews; Knowledge Regime; interactionism; Somatic Work; inequalities; Paranormal; structural inequalities; Ghost Beliefs; gender; Feeling Rules; race; Paranormal Experiences; class; Ghost Adventures; ghosts; Paranormal Activity; spirits; White Sage; sensing; Sensitive Abilities; sensing spirits; Discernment Work; Watch Tv Show; Sensitive Styles; Marc Eaton; Extrasensory Experiences; social construction; Disembodied Persons; paranormal investigation subculture; Spiritual Practice; Native American spiritual beliefs; Psychical Research; Spiritualism; Played Back; socialization; Sleep Paralysis
Publication date: 04-2022
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 10-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting interviews with investigators as well as extensive field observations, it explores their reasons for getting involved, their use of different investigative methods, the interpretive processes by which they individually and collectively ?sense? spirits, the ways in which these processes are influenced by small group power dynamics, and what paranormal investigation ultimately means to those who participate. While focusing on the practices by which investigators ?sense? spirits in small groups, the author also situates paranormal investigation within a broader cultural context and attends to how investigators attempt to legitimize their practice despite being marginalized by both science and religion. A fascinating study of ghosts as an inherently social phenomenon, Sensing Spirits will appeal to sociologists with interests in ethnography, interactionism, cultural studies and subcultures.
Introduction 1. Getting into the Spirit 2. Learning the "Right" Ways to Sense Spirits 3. Discerning Evidence of Spirits 4. Empersoning Spirits 5. Emplotting Spirits 6. Making Sense of Sensing Spirits The Dead as Social Objects and Actors Methodological Appendix
Marc Eaton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ripon College, USA and the co-editor of The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History.
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