Looking for a Miracle - Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Prometheus Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1993
First published:	September 1993
Authors:	Joe Nickell
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	253
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-87975-840-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Psychic powers, ESP > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian religious experience > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian religious experience > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Psychic powers, ESP > General Books > Christianity > Christian Religious Experience
LSN:	0-87975-840-6
Barcode:	9780879758400

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