A significant number of Americans spend their weekends at UFO
conventions hearing whispers of government cover-ups, at New Age
gatherings learning the keys to enlightenment, or ambling around
historical downtowns learning about resident ghosts in
tourist-targeted "ghost walks". They have been fed a steady diet of
fictional shows with paranormal themes such as The X-Files,
Supernatural, and Medium, shows that may seek to simply entertain,
but also serve to disseminate paranormal beliefs. The public hunger
for the paranormal seems insatiable. Paranormal America provides
the definitive portrait of Americans who believe in or have
experienced such phenomena as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic
phenomena, astrology, and the power of mediums. However, unlike
many books on the paranormal, this volume does not focus on proving
or disproving the paranormal, but rather on understanding the
people who believe and how those beliefs shape their lives. Drawing
on the Baylor Religion Survey-a multi-year national random sample
of American religious values, practices, and behaviors-as well as
extensive fieldwork including joining hunts for Bigfoot and
spending the night in a haunted house, authors Christopher Bader,
F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph Baker shed light on what the various
types of paranormal experiences, beliefs, and activities claimed by
Americans are; whether holding an unconventional belief, such as
believing in Bigfoot, means that one is unconventional in other
attitudes and behaviors; who has such experiences and beliefs and
how they differ from other Americans; and if we can expect major
religions to emerge from the paranormal. Brimming with engaging
personal stories and provocative findings, Paranormal America is an
entertaining yet authoritative look at a growing segment of
American religious culture.
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