
Intrusions
Society and the paranormal
Hilary Evans(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-1-032-39206-6 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1982, Intrusions examines a wide range of cases down through history, showing how ordinary people have regarded the paranormal in contrast with 'official' attitudes, and how society as a whole has attempted to deal with happenings that are inexplicable in terms of current scientific or religious theory. He discusses questions such as What did Shakespeare's audience feel about Hamlet's father's ghost? Why did a renewed interest in magic follow 'the age of enlightenment?' How did Victorian science respond to spiritualism, and why has scientific psychical research, when it finally came, encountered continued opposition? Drawing on reports and accounts of very kind, Mr. Evans gives an authentic account of prevailing attitudes, focussing for the first time directly on the experiences and points of view of ordinary people. He demonstrates that society has been, and still is, badly served by the intellectual establishment in matters relating to the paranormal. Although there are signs that the situation is improving, there is still a dismaying degree of reluctance even to investigate, let alone accept, these phenomena, yet they continue to occur, and people continue to seek explanations for them. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the mysteries of the paranormal as well as to students of parapsychology, history and literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-39206-6 (9781032392066)
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Content
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Uninvited visitors 2. Primitive notions 3. 'Beside the ordinary course of nature' 4. 'Visions and miracles are ceased' 5. 'An age of infidelity' 6. 'The night side of nature' 7. A rift in the veil? 8. Inquirers and investigators 9. 'Very pernicious for weak minds' 10. 'Gone West' 11. Anecdote and experiment 12. Standing idly by Books consulted Index