This book analyses the practices of today’s mediums, who insist on standing at the threshold between life and death, interpreting signs and passing on communications, and asks how such concepts and practices are perceived by contemporary society.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2016-10-04
Language: English
Number of Pages: 124
Edition: 1
Series: Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..