Edited by Jack Hunter
2016 Aporetic Press
172 pages
Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal is a collection of essays adopting a variety of 'Fortean' approaches to the study of religion, folklore and the paranormal. Over the course of four ground-breaking books published between 1919-1932, Charles Fort gathered thousands of accounts of weird events and experiences that seemed to upset the established models of mainstream science and religion. In order to explore these events Fort developed the philosophy of Intermediatism, whereby all phenomena (from the most mundane to the most extraordinary), are understood to partake of a quasi-existence, neither real nor unreal. It is from this indeterminate vantage point that the chapters in this book begin their investigations.
Table Of Contents:
Foreword: Damned Comparisons and the Real - Jeffrey J. Kripal
Introduction: Intermediatism and the Study of Religion - Jack Hunter
Chapter 1: No Limestone in the Sky: The Politics of Damned Facts - Amba J. Sepie
Chapter 2: The Methodologies of Radical Empiricism: The Experiential Worlds of William James and Charles Fort - Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Chapter 3: Extraordinary Religious/Anomalous Cases from Brazil and the Fortean Approach - Wellington Zangari, Fatima Regina Machado, Everton de Oliveira Maraldi and Leonardo Breno Martins
Chapter 4: A New Demonology: John Keel and The Mothman Prophecies - David Clarke
Chapter 5: UFO Abductions as Mystical Encounter: Faerie Folklore in W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Jacques Vallee and Whitley Strieber - Robin Jarrell
Chapter 6: Misunderstanding Myth as History: The Case of British-Israelism - David V. Barrett
Chapter 7: The Transmediumizers - Eden S. French and Christopher Laursen
Chapter 8: The Mirror Maze: True Reflections of the Hyperprophets - James Harris
Chapter 9: Implications of a Paranormal Labyrinth - Roberta Harris Short
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Damned-Facts-Religion-Folklore-Paranormal/dp/9963221424/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461879901&sr=1-2&keywords=damned+facts+jack+hunter
2016 Aporetic Press
172 pages
Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal is a collection of essays adopting a variety of 'Fortean' approaches to the study of religion, folklore and the paranormal. Over the course of four ground-breaking books published between 1919-1932, Charles Fort gathered thousands of accounts of weird events and experiences that seemed to upset the established models of mainstream science and religion. In order to explore these events Fort developed the philosophy of Intermediatism, whereby all phenomena (from the most mundane to the most extraordinary), are understood to partake of a quasi-existence, neither real nor unreal. It is from this indeterminate vantage point that the chapters in this book begin their investigations.
Table Of Contents:
Foreword: Damned Comparisons and the Real - Jeffrey J. Kripal
Introduction: Intermediatism and the Study of Religion - Jack Hunter
Chapter 1: No Limestone in the Sky: The Politics of Damned Facts - Amba J. Sepie
Chapter 2: The Methodologies of Radical Empiricism: The Experiential Worlds of William James and Charles Fort - Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Chapter 3: Extraordinary Religious/Anomalous Cases from Brazil and the Fortean Approach - Wellington Zangari, Fatima Regina Machado, Everton de Oliveira Maraldi and Leonardo Breno Martins
Chapter 4: A New Demonology: John Keel and The Mothman Prophecies - David Clarke
Chapter 5: UFO Abductions as Mystical Encounter: Faerie Folklore in W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Jacques Vallee and Whitley Strieber - Robin Jarrell
Chapter 6: Misunderstanding Myth as History: The Case of British-Israelism - David V. Barrett
Chapter 7: The Transmediumizers - Eden S. French and Christopher Laursen
Chapter 8: The Mirror Maze: True Reflections of the Hyperprophets - James Harris
Chapter 9: Implications of a Paranormal Labyrinth - Roberta Harris Short
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Damned-Facts-Religion-Folklore-Paranormal/dp/9963221424/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461879901&sr=1-2&keywords=damned+facts+jack+hunter
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