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Strand, Vincent L. ""TheCurrent Supernatural World Order": A Scheebenian Account of Supernatural Finality." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107511.

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Thesis advisor: Dominic F. Doyle<br>Thesis advisor: Reinhard Hutter<br>Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017<br>Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry<br>Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Williams, M. "Natural and supernatural religion." Thesis, Swansea University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636639.

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This thesis asks one fundamental question that is either implicit or explicit in each part. The underlying question is whether religious belief rests on a belief in a supernatural existence for its sense. I argue that this is not so, and that the sense of religious concepts does not presuppose any supernatural existence. In Part One I discuss the philosophical landscape that we have inherited from Hume, and how H.O. Mounce’s attempt to re-interpret Hume’s criticisms of religion, in the light of Hume’s own naturalist tendencies, still cannot reach any supernatural existence. In Part Two, I focu

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Schroer, Susan. "Henry James and the Supernatural." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111682485.

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Winthrop, Jonathan Peter. "Can science investigate the supernatural? : an investigation into the relationship between science, the supernatural and religion." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11763/.

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Throughout the last century there has been much discussion over what it is that makes an activity or a theory 'scientific'. In the philosophy of science, conversation has focused on differentiating legitimate science from so-called 'pseudoscience'. In the broader cultural sphere this topic has received attention in multiple legal debates regarding the status of creationism, where it has been generally agreed that the 'supernatural' nature of the claims involved renders them unscientific. In this thesis I focus upon the latter of these issues, arguing that although there may be merit in the lar

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Buttz, Catalina M. (Catalina Marie). "Cosmic microwave background predictions of supernatural inflation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32722.

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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, June 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-49).<br>This thesis makes predictions for the temperature anisotropy spectrum of the CMB under the supernatural inflation model class [17] and compares these predictions against the Boomerang 98 data [5], using the Lange et. al [11] cosmological parameter estimations for an [Omega]tot = 1 universe. This was implemented by creating a modified version of CMBFAST [19] which could accommodate a two-field inflation model. A series of codes were compiled, both with and

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Burnell, Aaron C. "Nobody's Darlings: Reading White Trash in Supernatural." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1305054871.

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Schofield, Malcolm B. "The cognitive and personality differences of supernatural belief." Thesis, University of Derby, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622047.

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This thesis set out to meet the following aim and objectives: Aim: Examine cognition and personality of people who hold different types of supernatural belief. Objective 1: Create and validate a new scale to measure supernatural belief. Objective 2: Create and test a new model of supernatural belief based on cognition and personality. This would potentially test two hypotheses: the Cognitive Deficits Hypothesis and the Psychodynamics Functions Hypothesis. This was accomplished by conducting four studies. Studies one and two created and validated the new Belief in the Supernatural Scale (BitSS)

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Manor, Gal. "Supernatural language in the works of Robert Browning." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248427.

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Barton, Kathryn Wendy. "The New Forest : setting, sanctuary & the supernatural." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/418009/.

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This project began with a love for the New Forest and a wish to understand the ways in which writers utilise it as location. It was asked how writers capture, convey and utilise this particular place and whether intimate knowledge of it can enhance their work. An analysis was made of the impression of the New Forest given by writers, whether as a setting, as sanctuary, or by utilising its supernatural effects. The knowledge gained from such research enabled the production of 23 short stories of varying lengths, entitled Haunts & Shades, with the New Forest as their linking location. Research w

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Wallace, Nathaniel R. "H.P. Lovecraft's Literary "Supernatural Horror" in Visual Culture." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417615151.

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Katz, Jessica Mefford. "Non-natural Moral Properties: Sui Generis or Supernatural?" Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1537983825549632.

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Webb, Montgomery Paul. "Revelation and chiasm the drama of supernatural warfare /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Wash, Dwight Derrell. "Concepts of supernatural punishment for worldly moral misconduct." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/450.

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Van, Poppel Elisabeth Wilhelmina. "Oleander : the writing of the contemporary supernatural drama." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15995/1/Elisabeth_Van_Poppel_Thesis.pdf.

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Oleander is a screenplay and exegesis that explores how the supernatural drama contributes to a deeper understanding of contemporary feature writing. The central theorists of the feature film, represented here by McKee, Seger, Vogler and Hauge, have created a robust model built around a three act structure, an inciting incident and clear challenge pursued and resolved by a protagonist. The thesis argues that the supernatural drama also calls for the logical treatment of the supernatural element, its managed concealment and its step by step revelation as part of the story development. The thes

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Van, Poppel Elisabeth Wilhelmina. "Oleander : the writing of the contemporary supernatural drama." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15995/.

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Oleander is a screenplay and exegesis that explores how the supernatural drama contributes to a deeper understanding of contemporary feature writing. The central theorists of the feature film, represented here by McKee, Seger, Vogler and Hauge, have created a robust model built around a three act structure, an inciting incident and clear challenge pursued and resolved by a protagonist. The thesis argues that the supernatural drama also calls for the logical treatment of the supernatural element, its managed concealment and its step by step revelation as part of the story development. The thes

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Dahlqvist, Ingeborg. "Competitive Talk and the Three Main Characters in Supernatural." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-14387.

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This study focuses on all-male dialogues in the popular television series Supernatural. The purpose is to determine if and to what extent some linguistic features that are said to be characteristic of competitive talk among men occur in these dialogues. Do modern, scripted dialogues correspond to the impression given in the literature? Can the principal male characters‟ spoken interaction in Supernatural be considered competitive and thus stereotypically male?The material for this quantitative and qualitative study consists of the entire third season of the series, which comprises 16 episodes

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Currie, Morgan. "Signifying the supernatural : ineffable presence in Bernini's Altieri chapel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ50507.pdf.

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曾慶慈 and Hing-chi Tsang. "A critical study of supernatural elements in Yuan drama." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31210028.

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劉柏康 and Pak-hong Lau. "Tales of vixen transformation in traditional Chinese "supernatural stories"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3121549X.

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Clery, Emma Juliet. "The writing of the supernatural in eighteenth-century Britain." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240444.

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Boggs, April R. "No Chick Flick Moments: 'Supernatural' as a Masculine Narrative." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1237564610.

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Gan, Min. "The phantom returns: on Lilian Lee's three supernatural stories." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/804.

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This thesis, based on Green Snake, The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus and Rouge, three novels written by Hong Kong author Lilian Lee, discusses the respective supernatural heroines in relation to the Chinese folklore and to the Hong Kong status quo before the 1997 Handover, seeking to find the allegorical significance behind the heroines beyond the genre of fantastic.

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Grobisen, Hannah. "The Winchester Gospel: The 'Supernatural' Fandom as a Religion." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2010.

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This thesis explores how fandom can be interpreted as a religious experience, specifically examining the fandom of the television show Supernatural. I focus on how fans are emotionally influenced by and drawn to the source material, fan labor/content creation, LGBTQ content and interpretations by the fandom, and toxicity within the fandom.

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Eckersley, Adrian Barry. "The fiction of Arthur Machen : fantastic writing in the context of materialism." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250145.

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Costa, Sarah Moralejo da [UNESP]. "Supernatural na web: produção e reprodução audiovisual em suporte convergente." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89376.

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Mohammadi, Doostdar Alireza. "Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in Iran." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10215.

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This dissertation examines uncertainties about the supernatural among members of the urban middle class in Tehran, Iran. In particular, I attend to the ways in which the category of the supernatural (mavara) has become, for some people, an object of potential scientific (`elmi) inquiry that must be distinguished from approaches usually ascribed to the rural, the uneducated, and the poor, often deemed as either superstitions (khorafat) or parochically religious (dini). By examining a range of encounters with the supernatural - such as attempts to explain communications with the souls of the dea

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Friesen, Ryan Curtis. "Fictions of supernatural agency in early modern drama and culture." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422007.

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Golding, Justin Alex. "Muse : a novel ; The Broken Home : defamiliarization in supernatural fiction." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/a7f45fb0-eb57-4873-9319-5943115b201f.

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Sanders, Elizabeth Mildred. "Enchanting Belief: Religion and Secularism in the Victorian Supernatural Novel." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5186.

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Fathallah, Judith. "Changing discursive formations from Supernatural : fanfic and the legitimation paradox." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/58900/.

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This thesis argues that fanfic operates through a paradox of legitimation. Using the current cult text Supernatural (CW, 2006-) as a case study, discourse theory adapted from Foucault is utilized to establish that discursive formations from the source text can be de- and re-constructed, sometimes consolidating canon’s constructions, but at other times, altering Othered characterizations and criticising statements from canon. Paradoxically, however, this process utilizes and functions through the capital of the already-empowered: the White male Author (Jenkins 1995; Hills 2002; 2010a; Wexelblat

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Nelson, Taylor. "Belief and Belongingness: Are Supernatural Agents and Forces Social Surrogates?" Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28751.

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Motivational approaches to the study of supernatural beliefs propose that such beliefs serve psychological functions. I tested the proposal that supernatural agents and forces are sought out as social surrogates to fulfill the need to belong. First, I present preliminary data consistent with the claim that the belongingness motive and deficits in belongingness (i.e., loneliness) are related to supernatural beliefs. Next, I report an experiment testing the supernatural social surrogate proposal. I hypothesized that affirming belongingness would reduce supernatural beliefs and that the relations

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Costa, Sarah Moralejo da. "Supernatural na web : produção e reprodução audiovisual em suporte convergente /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89376.

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Orientador: Marcelo Magalhães Bulhões<br>Banca: Rogério Ferraraz<br>Banca: Mauro de Souza Ventura<br>Resumo: A diversidade de suportes e mídias que povoam o mercado tecnológico atualmente desperta preocupações por parte dos produtores de conteúdo cultural comercial devido principalmente à necessidade de atender a um novo público que busca cada vez mais interagir com narrativas, com os produtores e com demais consumidores. A web, com suas ferramentas de interatividade e construção coletiva de conhecimento, se destaca como ponto de união de interesses tanto de produtores, com a maior variabilida

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Yule, Jeffrey V. "Science, the supernatural, and the postmodern impulse in contemporary fiction /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487952208107624.

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Fink, Richard William. "The Commercialization of the Afterlife: Spiritualism's Supernatural Economy, 1848-1900." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/69792.

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History<br>M.A.<br>Spiritualism was a popular cultural movement that flourished in the late-19th century across the United States and eventually Europe. While there were many facets of its philosophy, the primary conviction behind Spiritualism was that spirits of the dead could communicate with the living through human mediums. Although this basic definition of Spiritualism is virtually uncontested in contemporary scholarship, the cultural causes of the movement remain a highly debated topic. Historians have proposed a variety of theories for Spiritualism's inception, but none have yet to expl

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Stansberry, Tonya Faye. "Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0712103-091758/unrestricted/StansberryT072203f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003.<br>Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0712103-091758. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Tupman, B. W. "A commentary on magic and the supernatural in Petronius' Satyrica." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27744.

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Petronius, like many of his contemporaries, had a deep interest in magic. Although magic rituals and tales with a supernatural theme make up a considerable part of the fragments that remain of his novel the Satyrica, little attention has been paid to Petronius’ account of magic. It is a commonplace of Petronian scholarship that the author is a realist, in his predilection for the seamier side of life, in his reproduction of popular speech, in his satirising of contemporary social issues, in his frank treatment of sexuality and in his expropriation of the popular mime, a genre defined by its at

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Herbig, Art, and Andrew F. Herrmann. "Polymediated Narrative: The Case of the Supernatural Episode "Fan Fiction"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/757.

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Modern stories are the product of a recursive process influenced by elements of genre, outside content, medium, and more. These stories exist in a multitude of forms and are transmitted across multiple media. This article examines how those stories function as pieces of a broader narrative, as well as how that narrative acts as a world for the creation of stories. Through an examination of the polymediated nature of modern narratives, we explore the complicated nature of modern storytelling.

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Manzato, Anna <1995&gt. "Supernatural, Tragic and Comic in Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19673.

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English This dissertation investigates Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor and particularly focuses on the coexistence of the supernatural, tragic, and comic dimensions within the novel. After briefly introducing Scott’s role as the inventor of the historical novel and the mutual influence of Romanticism and Enlightenment in his works, the first chapter examines the position of The Bride of Lammermoor within the cycle of the Waverley Novels, and highlights the peculiarities that distinguish it from its companions. The following chapter analyses Scott’s viewpoint and use of the Gothic ge

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Simons, Karen Elaine. "To rescue this enlightened age, the supernatural and Coleridge's divining poetics." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ51228.pdf.

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Alsowaifan, Sabah H. "Qasim's short stories, an example of Arabic supernatural/ghost/horror story." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60270.pdf.

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Durham, Mitchell L. "Denominational differences in supernatural locus of control and spiritual well-being." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Sharp, Carissa. "An investigation of cognitive representations of the self and supernatural others." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610750.

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Haenninen, Kirsi. "The Construction of Self in Finnish First-person Supernatural Encounter Narratives." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1261592657.

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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Discourses of Horror TV: Kolchak, Twin Peaks, and the Supernatural Drama." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/792.

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Hall, Daniel James Alan. "Gothic fiction in France and Germany (1790-1800)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324030.

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Willard, Aiyana K. "The basis of belief : the cognitive and cultural foundations of supernatural belief." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54287.

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In this dissertation I explore the relative roles of cognition and culture play as the foundations of religious and supernatural belief. On the cognitive side, theories of religion have postulated several cognitive biases that predispose human minds towards supernatural belief. However, to this date, very little empirical evidence exists to show how these hypotheses preform in predicting actual religious beliefs. I explore these biases and how they interrelate to support supernatural beliefs using individual difference measures across several large samples from Canada, the US, the Czech Republ

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Sims, Melissa. "Supernatural intervention as an explanation for natural phenomena in Native American mythologies." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/935922.

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Natural phenomena and natural disasters occur across the regions of the United States. While science now provides factual documentation for causes of meteorological and geological events, most Native American tribes lacked scientific explanations of these occurrences. Native Americans, however, sought to explain the effects and often devastation resulting from meteorological and geological events in some manner. The religions and mythologies of many cultures provide explanations for the occurrence of natural phenomena through supernatural intervention. The presentation of myths by geographic r

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Bennett, Gillian. "Aspects of supernatural belief, memorate and legend in a contemporary urban environment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1891/.

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The aim of the study is to move away from the antiquarian bias of previous work on the folklore of the supernatural in order to shed light on present day attitudes and concepts. In the past, folkiorists have done very little to collect their own culture, or even to recognise its forms. This has been particularly true of British work on ghost traciitions - the tendency of all but a very few scholars has 'been to retire to the library and compile collections of legends. The present study eschews this approach in favour of fieldwork. There are three main aspects of the work. The early chapters pr

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Laverda, Alessandro. "Revising the supernatural : the inquiry on miracles in early modern canonisation trials." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42928.

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Making use of both published treatises and archival documents, this dissertation explains the reasons for the birth of a new concept of miracle in early modern canonisation trials held in Papal Rome. From the twelfth century, Catholic tradition had long defined a miracle as an event exceeding the whole of the order of nature, which meant both the visible and corporeal as well as the invisible and spiritual order. However, during the seventeenth century, Aristotelian physics was replaced by a new way of investigating nature, focused on mathematics as a method of inquiry, on mechanical explanati

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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Re-Discovering Kolchak: Elevating the Influence of the First Television Supernatural Drama." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/811.

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Each panelist has chosen an artifact (or type, genre, etc.) from the recent past and interrogated its role as an influence on contemporary popular culture, working to show the linkage between then and now. This type of work is underappreciated and we would like to attempt to show how informing ourselves on popular culture past can make us better critics in the present. Our hope is to inspire others to take up that cause as well. In that spirit, we would like to encourage people to come prepared to discuss ideas and share their own work in a workshop type environment.

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