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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Illustrations 9 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: Old Spirits in New Bottles 12 One: The Usefulness of Ghost Stories 34 Two: Scientific Rationalism and Supernatural Experience Narratives 69 Three: Gender and Ghosts 88 Four: Children￢ﾀﾙs Ghost Stories 118 Five: Haunted Houses 148 Six: The Commodification of Belief 176 Conclusion: The ￢ﾀﾜSpectral Turn￢ﾀﾝ 211 Notes 233 Bibliography 239 Filmography 255 Index 258 Back Cover 276 Publisher:Utah State University Press,Published:2007,ISBN:9780874216813,Related ISBN:9780874216363,Language:English,OCLC:476175527 Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklo

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Author

Goldstein, Diane E.;Grider, Sylvia Ann;Thomas, Jeannie Banks

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874216363

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Folklore, Anthropology

Rating

3.97 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14