1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396912803316

Titolo

A Confession of faith [[electronic resource] /] / put forth by the elders and brethren of many congregations of Christians (baptized upon profession of their faith) in London and the country

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Benjamin Harris and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1677

Descrizione fisica

[14], 142 p

Soggetti

Baptists - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Identified on UMI microfilm as variant of C5794.

Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137133103321

Autore

Lepselter Susan Claudia

Titolo

The resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Michigan Press, 2016

ISBN

0-472-12154-5

Disciplina

001.942

Soggetti

Human-alien encounters - United States

Conspiracy theories

Parapsychology & Occult Sciences

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Captivity is a trope that appears in both ordinary and fantastic iterations here, and Susan Lepselter shows how multiple troubled histories--of race, class, gender, and power--become compressed into stories of uncanny memory.  "We really don't have anything like this in terms of a focused, sympathetic, open-minded ethnographic study of UFO experiencers. . . . The author's semiotic approach to the paranormal is immensely productive, positive, and, above all, resonant with what actually happens in history." --Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Rice University  "Lepselter relates a weave of intimate alien sensibilities in out-off-the-way places which are surprisingly,



profoundly, close to home. Readers can expect to share her experience of contact with complex logics of feeling, and to do so in a contemporary America they may have thought they understood." --Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College  "An original and beautifully written study of contemporary American cultural poetics. . . . The book convincingly brings into relief the anxieties of those at the margins of American economic and civic life, their perceptions of state power, and the narrative continuities that bond them to histories of violence and expansion in the American West." --Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan