...Supernatural Significations ...

... India Taiwan religious television enchanted modernities nonsecular modernities supernatural beliefs consumerism and religion marketised spiritualisms ...

... Themes raised in chapter 5 are developed further in chapter 6 on “enchanted” rather than “modern-rational” forms of expertise. This chapter turns to religious, spiritual, and supernatural life advice television in India and Taiwan to explore the distinctive counternarratives of modernity...

... This chapter analyzes John Marrant’s use of structural elements from the Exodus story to illustrate supernatural resistance to enslavers. The Exodus motif was also espoused by David Margrette, a fellow minister in the Huntingdon Connexion, who preached in Savannah, Georgia. Marrant’s...

... that underlying the neighborhood watch is a particular mode of understanding, expressing, and institutionalizing urban security and order, namely, territoriality. Territoriality may be expressed in very mundane ways or in supernatural ways, but at base, it is a relationship established between an occupant...

... events and dynamics creating conditions for action by entities that likely would be characterized by non-natives as supernatural. Rejecting reproductively-inflected narratives of inheritance and declension, Alexie and Silko’s texts elaborate the intimacy of modes of prophetic reach across time...

... why other forms of posthumous or “supernatural” flight must also enter discussions of Palmares. The chapter also uses Inquisition records to paint a fuller picture of spirituality and religious practices in Palmares and the larger captaincy, Pernambuco. What Catholic officials treated as “witchcraft...

..., science and the supernatural, insiders and outsiders in how the work of transplant proceeded in Mexico, as well as in how it was perceived. Both life-giving and death-ridden, transplant medicine seems always to invite awe and horror in nearly equal measure, evoking a deep moral duality that recalls...

.... The chapter argues that underlying the neighborhood watch is a particular mode of understanding, expressing, and institutionalizing urban security and order, namely, territoriality. Territoriality may be expressed in very mundane ways or in supernatural ways, but at base, it is a relationship established...

... and Alejo Carpentier, the chapter suggests why other forms of posthumous or “supernatural” flight must also enter discussions of Palmares. The chapter also uses Inquisition records to paint a fuller picture of spirituality and religious practices in Palmares and the larger captaincy, Pernambuco. What...

... from the provocative figure of El Niño Doctor de los Enfermos (Baby Jesus, Doctor of the Sick) to explore the dense intermingling of notions of the sacred and the profane, science and the supernatural, insiders and outsiders in how the work of transplant proceeded in Mexico, as well as in how...

..., 1998), 17. The more supernatural disturbances of “Believe in Ghosts!” are considered further and well beyond the years of the Civil War in Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), especially “The Experience...

..., 1998), 17. The more supernatural disturbances of “Believe in Ghosts!” are considered further and well beyond the years of the Civil War in Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), especially “The Experience...

..., 1998), 17. The more supernatural disturbances of “Believe in Ghosts!” are considered further and well beyond the years of the Civil War in Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), especially “The Experience...

..., 1998), 17. The more supernatural disturbances of “Believe in Ghosts!” are considered further and well beyond the years of the Civil War in Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), especially “The Experience...

..., 1998), 17. The more supernatural disturbances of “Believe in Ghosts!” are considered further and well beyond the years of the Civil War in Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), especially “The Experience...