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Table of Contents

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1. Introduction

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Part 1
2.  An Overview of Tricksters From
     Mythology, Folklore, and Elsewhere
3 . Ernest Hartmann’s Mental Boundaries
4 . Victor Turner’s Concept of Anti-structure
Part 2
5.  Mysticism, Holy Madness, and Fools 
     for God
6.  Shamanism and Its Sham
Part 3
7.  Michael Winkelman on Magico-religious
     Practitioners
8.  Max Weber, Charisma, and the 
     Disenchantment of the World  Download Chapter (190 KB PDF)
9.  Cultural Change and the Paranormal
Part 4
10.  Prominent “Psychics”
11.  Conjurors and the Paranormal
12.  CSICOP and the Debunkers
13.  Small Groups and the Paranormal
14.  Alternative Religions and Psi
15.  Institutions and the Paranormal
16.  Anti-structure and the History of
       Psychical Research
17.  Unbounded Conditions
18.  Government Disinformation
19.  Hoaxes and the Paranormal
Part 5
20.  Reflexivity and the Trickster
21.  Laboratory Research on Psi
22.  Totemism and the Primitive Mind
23.  Literary Criticism, Meaning, and
       the Trickster
Part 6
24.  The Imagination
25.  Paranoia

26.  Conclusions

Endnotes

References

Index
 


 

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