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Boston, Massachusetts : DE GRUYTER, 2020

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ISBN 9783110416411 (e-book)

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ISBN 9783110416367

Okkulte moderne, ISSN 23669179 ; 2

Print version: Mediality on trial : testing and contesting trance and other media techniques. Boston, Massachusetts: DE GRUYTER, 2020 668 pages Okkulte Moderne. ISBN 9783110416367

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Introduction // Ehler Voss: The Mediumistic Trial. Testing and Contesting the Thresholds of Agency, Consciousness, and Technology — 3 // Mediumistic Trials of the Long 19th Century // Karl Baier: The Therapeutic Mediologies of Animal Magnetism — 33 // Erhard Schuttpelz and Ehler Voss: Quite as Powerful. The Mediumistic Controversy in the 19th Century — 67 // Janny Li: A Case of Quasi-Certainty. William James and the Making of the Subliminal Mind — 78 // Ehler Voss: Educating the Mediums. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing’s Work of Purification on Spiritualism — 106 // Sonu Shamdasani: ‘S. W.’ and C. G. Jung: From Mediumship to Analytical Psychology — 121 // Mediumistic Trials of the Short 20th Century // Ulrich Linse: The Braunau Trance Mediums and their Spiritualist Circle Between the Two World Wars. A Local Study — 145 // Erhard Schuttpelz and Ehler Voss: Passing the Examination. The Mediumistic Trial and its Double n the Writings of Jeanne Favret-Saada — 209 // Andrew Ventimiglia: The Angel in the Machine. Divining Legal Authorship in Channelled and Computer-Generated Works — 236 // Anna Lux: The Return of the Controversy. Testing Psychics in the 1970s and its Consequences for German Parapsychology — 261 // Uwe Schellinger: Clairvoyance for the Security of the Republic. Gerard Croiset and the Search for Hanns Martin Schleyer (1977) — 284 // Ehler Voss: California Dreamin’. The Invention of Modern Western Shamanism as a Mediumistic Trial of the 20th Century — 315 // Ilka Becker: Mediators of Trance. María Sabina - Gordon Wasson - Bruce Conner — 339 // Anthony Enns: Psychic Spies. Cold War Science and the Military-Occult Complex — 370 // Mediumistic Trials of the 21st Century // Egil Asprem: The Magus of Silicon Valley. Immortality, Apocalypse, and God Making in Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanism — 397 //

Ehler Voss: Fighting the Fakers and Fooling the Fighters. Skeptics between Triumph and Agony, or: The Birth of the Skeptical Movement from the Spirit of Magic — 413 // Erin Yerby: Mediating Spirits. Sensation, Form and the Body in American Spiritualism — 432 // Carly Machado and Raquel Sant’Ana: Mediating “Mystery”. Pentecostalism, the Media, and the Social Production of Hope and Suspicion in the Brazilian Crime Debate — 475 // Mirko Uhlig: “It Is Easier to Stay Out than Get Out”. A Sweat Lodge Ritual, the Entangled Ethnographer on Trial, and Irony as a Stance for Anthropological Analysis — 496 // Ehler Voss: Shamanism on Trial. Acting in a Hall of Mirrors — 513 // Heike Behrend: “I know ... but still.” Popular Photography and the Mediation of Luck in Japan — 538 // J. Brent Crosson: Burdens of Proof. Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and its Mediums in Trinidad 552 // Rukiye Canli: Sufi Practices, the Masters’ Role and the Media of Legitimacy. On the Coincidence of Technical Media and Sufi Mediums — 576 // Graham M. Jones: Purity’s Perils. Race, Republicanism, and Relevance of Magic in Contemporary France — 605 // Epilogue // Ehler Voss: “I Believe in Science Now!” Skeptics Between Hope, Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas — 627 // List of Contributors — 637 // Name Index — 643 // Place Index — 655

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