Making Sense of the Paranormal
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-88406-2 (ISBN)
This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations into allegedly haunted spaces and the analyses describe how, through their talk and embodied actions, participants collaboratively negotiate the paranormal status of the events they experience.By drawing on the study of the social organisation in everyday interaction, they show how paranormal interpretations may be proposed, contested and negotiated through conversational and embodied practices of the group.
The book contributes to the sociology of anomalous experience, and explores its relevance to other social science topics such as dark tourism, participation in religious spaces and practices, and the attribution of agency. This book will therefore be of interest to academics and postgraduate researchers of languageand social interaction; discourse and communication, cultural studies; social psychology, sociology of religious experience; parapsychology, communication and psychotherapy.
Rachael Ironside is Lecturer in Events Management at Robert Gordon University, UK, and Associate Member of the Anomalous Experience Research Unit. Her research examines group interaction and paranormal experiences using video data and conversation analysis to explore how groups collectively identify and negotiate ostensibly paranormal events.
Robin Wooffitt is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK, and Director of the Anomalous Experiences Research Unit. He works in the area of conversation analysis as applied to psychology and psychological topics. He has published widely on the relationship between discourse and memory, social identity, parapsychological experiences, consciousness, and the language of laboratory procedures.
1. Language, Embodiment And Anomalous Experience.- 2. The (Absent) Body In Research On Paranormal Phenomena.- 3. Talk, Bodies And Tools In Interaction With Spirits.- 4. What Is That?.- 5. Embodied Sense Making.- 6. Experiencing The (Anomalous) Moment.
"Making Sense of the Paranormal makes an important contribution to sociological and interactionist research on the paranormal ... . Making Sense of the Paranormal offers original insights into how meaning emerges through the interplay talk, embodied actions, and objects in physical settings that are also significant to this meaning making activity." (Marc A. Eaton, Symbolic Interaction, September 17, 2022)
“Making Sense of the Paranormal makes an important contribution to sociological and interactionist research on the paranormal … . Making Sense of the Paranormal offers original insights into how meaning emerges through the interplay talk, embodied actions, and objects in physical settings that are also significant to this meaning making activity.” (Marc A. Eaton, Symbolic Interaction, September 17, 2022)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | VII, 144 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 339 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Schlagworte | anomalous event • conversation analysis • Parapsychology • sense-making practices • Social Interaction |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-88406-6 / 3030884066 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-88406-2 / 9783030884062 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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