000			02161nam a22003137a 4500
001			sulb-eb0015824
003			BD-SySUS
005			20160405134445.0
008			110601s2013||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d
020			_a9781139094320 (ebook)
020			_z9781107019331 (hardback)
020			_z9781107688025 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aBF1031 _b.L255 2013
082	0	0	_a130 _223
100	1		_aLamont, Peter, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aExtraordinary Beliefs : _bA Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem / _cPeter Lamont.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (336 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aSince the early nineteenth century, mesmerists, mediums and psychics have exhibited extraordinary phenomena. These have been demonstrated, reported and disputed by every modern generation. We continue to wonder why people believe in such things, while others wonder why they are dismissed so easily. Extraordinary Beliefs takes a historical approach to an ongoing psychological problem: why do people believe in extraordinary phenomena? It considers the phenomena that have been associated with mesmerism, spiritualism, psychical research and parapsychology. By drawing upon conjuring theory, frame analysis and discourse analysis, it examines how such phenomena have been made convincing in demonstration and report, and then disputed endlessly. It argues that we cannot understand extraordinary beliefs unless we properly consider the events in which people believe, and what people believe about them. And it shows how, in constructing and maintaining particular beliefs about particular phenomena, we have been in the business of constructing ourselves.
650		0	_aParapsychology
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107019331
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139094320
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37668 _d37668