...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

..., 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...