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Since the second world war, changing ideas about how children should behave have made us fear independent and competent children.
In the 1960s, the Catholic Church sought to downplay demonic possession, but its views since then have changed.
Research suggests mediums possess a proclivity for hallucinatory experiences.
In this new SBS series, four Melbourne families must deal with the ghosts of their past – both literal and metaphorical.
Latin American filmmakers wanting to alert the world to human rights abuses are turning to the supernatural to tell compelling stories
They might not really fly on broomsticks or cast spells, but the witches and wizards of books and films are based on real people.
John Wyndham’s book The Midwich Cuckoos is set to be adapted for the screen for the third time. The tale of otherworldly children resonates with audiences today as much as it did in 1957.
Television’s Unsolved Mysteries – about to be rebooted – deals with true crime on one hand, and supernatural events like alien abductions on the other. They share powerful psychological bonds.
The natural world is full of intriguing clues.
In the early 1900s, fortune-telling provided entertainment, social connection and a job for some Australians. Its legal status made criminals of women, yet allowed others entry to the police force.
Sometimes the unknown is more appealing than the truth – and it has kept ghost hunters in business for generations.
A new exhibition surveys the haunting Japanese traditions and beliefs that connect the supernatural with the everyday.
Fear of a disease that seemed to turn people into beasts might have inspired belief in supernatural beings that live on in today’s creepy Halloween costumes.
Computer capabilities have boosted our decryption technology to great heights. How will the future compare to a past, one in which codes were thought to be a means of communicating after death?
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
From naked mole rats to the immortal jellyfish – the creatures that would make Dracula shudder.
Throughout Catholic history, miracles have been attributed to Virgin Mary’s power. She is understood to cry not only over the sins of the world, but over the pain she experienced in her earthly life.
The underpinning of Christian faith is the belief in a miracle – the resurrection of Jesus. As we approach Easter, a philosopher-physician asks whether miracles can make sense.
Native American scholars joined in the global March for Science. Their science blends seamlessly with beliefs.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Doctoral Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures, University of Exeter
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Professor of Mobile Media and Games., RMIT University
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