Darryl Caterine on the Paranormal and Popular Culture

Belief in the paranormal has remained high among Americans. What is the paranormal, what phenomena are involved, what can be said about the recent Pentagon UFO/UAP report, and why should religion scholars take the paranormal seriously? Darryl Caterine discusses this and more. Caterine is a professor of religious studies at LeMoyne College. He is a historian of religions whose research focuses on the intersections of religion, culture, and politics in the US and parts of Latin America. His areas of academic research include metaphysical/occult religions in America, and religion in popular culture. He is the author and co-editor of several books including an ethnography, Haunted Ground: Journeys Through a Paranormal America, and the volume we co-edited, The Paranormal in Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape.