Society for Anomalies

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The Society for Anomalies ( GfA ) is a recognized non-profit association based in Freiburg im Breisgau . About 150 members say they support the critical and interdisciplinary discussion of scientific anomalies ( anomalistics ), extraordinary human experiences and parasciences .

aims

The aim of the society is stated to stimulate and promote scientific research in the mentioned subject area and to inform the public about it. Not only should the truth be checked and explanations should be sought, but psychosocial backgrounds should also be taken into account. The guidelines cited are as unbiased as possible and a pluralism of methodological approaches and content-related positions.

history

The association was founded in 1999 by former members of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP) and representatives of various parasciences under the name “Forum Parasciences”. In contrast to the skeptics movement represented by the GWUP in the German-speaking area , a forum should be created for constructive dialogue between critics and representatives of parasciences.

In 2002 the association was renamed the "Society for Anomalies".

activities

Since 2001 the Society for Anomalistics has published the " Journal for Anomalistics ". It also publishes the series of publications of the Society for Anomalistics . In 2015, on behalf of the Society for Anomalistics and the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene , the Schattauer Verlag published the manual of scientific anomalies , which, according to the publisher, is the "first German-language manual of unusual phenomena and experiences".

Another field of activities is the organization of conferences and panel discussions. The last conference took place under the title Altered States of Consciousness - Extraordinary Experiences in November 2018 in Marburg .

Series of publications

Since 2003 the Society for Anomalistics has published the series of publications by the Society for Anomalistics , which was later renamed Perspektiven der Anomalistik and has since been published by LIT-Verlag . According to the Society for Anomalistics, the aim of the series is to promote a critical and interdisciplinary discourse in science and society about anomalistic phenomena, extraordinary human experiences and the so-called parasciences.

Volumes published so far:

  • Voltmer, Ulrike (2003): Curriculum vitae and astrological constellations: An empirical study to test alleged relationships.
  • Mayer, Gerhard (2004): Phantoms - Miracles - Sensations: The supernatural as a topic of press coverage.
  • Mayer, Gerhard and Schetsche, Michael (2011): N equals 1: Methodology and methodology of anomalous individual case studies.
  • Schäfer, Christina (2013): Extraordinary experiences. Construction of identity and change in autobiographical narratives. Münster: LIT publishing house
  • Schetsche, Michael and Anton, Andreas (eds.) (2013): This side of the thought prohibitions. Building blocks for reflective UFO research . Münster: LIT publishing house
  • Müller, Klaus E. (2014): In the shadow of the Enlightenment: Basics of a theory of atopology. Münster: LIT publishing house
  • Richter, Jonas (2017): Gods-Astronauts: Erich von Däniken and the Paleo-SETI-Mythology . Münster: LIT publishing house
  • Hövelmann, Gerd and Michels, Hans (Eds.) (2017): Legitimacy of Unbelief. The Collected Papers of Piet Hein Hoebbens. Münster: LIT publishing house
  • Mayer, Gerhard (Ed.) (2019): N equals 1. Single Case Studies in Anomalistics. Münster: LIT publishing house.

Members (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website of the GfA ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 5, 2010, for goal setting @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anomalistik.de
  2. ↑ GfA website on the history of its origins
  3. ↑ Anomalies ( Memento of February 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at DEGUFO
  4. ↑ Proof in the SWB catalog
  5. ↑ Website of the Schattauer-Verlag ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 14, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schattauer.de
  6. ↑ [Altered States of Consciousness - Extraordinary Experiences Note on the website], accessed on December 21, 2018.
  7. ↑ GfA website ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anomalistik.de