The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Sociological Account

This book is based on the author's ten-year research into the politics of belief surrounding paranormal ideas. Through a detailed examination of the participants, issues, strategies and underlying factors that constitute the contemporary paranormal debate, the book explores the struggle surrounding the status or paranormal phenomena. It examines, on the one hand, how the principal arbiters of religious and scientific truths - the Church and the academic establishment - reject paranormal ideas as 'occult, and 'pseudo-scientific', and how, on the other hand, paranormal enthusiasts attempt to resist such labels and instead establish paranormal ideas as legitimate knowledge.

About the Author:
Dr Jeremy Northcote is Lecturer in the School of Marketing, Tourism and Leisure at Edith Cowan University