Looking for a Miracle Tapa dura - 1993
de Joe Nickell
Not a critique of religion, Looking for a Miracle is a careful investigation of the evidence relating to specific claims. Among the numerous strange events, powers, and objects discussed are the Shroud of Turin, magical icons, mystical relics, and Pentecostal Powers, such as "speaking in tongues".
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Do miracles really happen? What is the evidence for paranormal phenomena that demonstrate divine power, and what alternative explanations can be offered for such apparently miraculous occurrences? How does the earnest inquirer assess the conflicting evidence and reach a conclusion? These and related questions are answered in this illuminating examination of miracle claims by respected historical, paranormal, and forensic investigator Joe Nickell. Not a critique of religion but rather a careful examination of the evidence relating to specific claims of the miraculous, Looking for a Miracle investigates a panoply of strange events, powers, and objects that are at the center of the controversy between so-called miraculists and confirmed skeptics. Among the phenomena studied are "Miraculous Pictures", like the Shroud of Turin, the Edessan Image, and the Image of Guadalupe; seemingly "Magical Icons", such as weeping, bleeding, and otherwise animated paintings and statues; "Mystical Relics", including "burning handprints", the liquefying blood of St. Januarius, and ostensibly "incorruptible" corpses of saints; "Pentecostal Powers", such as speaking in tongues, the gift of prophecy, taking up serpents, and other powers and immunities; "Faith Healing", including the reported miracle cures at Lourdes and the practices of evangelists, Christian Scientists, and "psychic surgeons"; "Ecstatic Visions", like the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima and Medjugorje; and such "Sanctified Powers" as luminosity, levitation, bilocation, stigmata, inedia (the going without food); and the ability to produce objects out of thin air. Looking for a Miracle is a wide-ranging investigative study of acontroversial topic that has all too often been approached either with excessive credulity or a dismissive attitude. Religious believers and rationalist thinkers alike have much to learn from this revealing examination of the evidence for the miraculous.
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- Título Looking for a Miracle
- Autor Joe Nickell
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición 1st Edition
- Páginas 253
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
- Fecha de publicación 1993-09-01
- Features Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780879758400 / 0879758406
- Peso 1.27 libras (0.58 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.28 x 6.4 x 1.04 pulgadas (23.57 x 16.26 x 2.64 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 1710
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93025322
- Dewey Decimal Code 231.73
Reseñas en medios
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- Booklist, 09/01/1993, Page 9
- Library Journal, 09/01/1993, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 08/02/1993, Page 0
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