Even as multispecies and posthumanist scholarship expands definitions of being, it usually restricts other-than-humans to “natural” entities. Secular attachments to the material and the visible as the site of the real make it difficult to think “supernature” alongside nature-culture. Yet, many otherwise-secular folk have stories – experiences – that do not square with secular-modern notions of the real.

What might these stories tell us about the secular, about the ghostly undercurrents that weave back and forth beneath its stark distinction between natural and supernatural, visible and invisible, reality and superstition, truth and falsity? How might posthumanism, read against the grain and alongside nonsecular traditions, offer a framework to rethink nonhuman worlds and our entanglements with them, including the
possibility that there exist nonhuman worlds we cannot fully know, given our sensory limitations as homo sapiens? Finally, how might scholars write this uncertainty in ways unbeholden to the terms of secular academic narrative?