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Looking for a miracle. Weeping icons, relics, stigmata, visions & healing cures Hardcover - 1993
by NICKELL, JOE
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".
Description
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993. Orig. boards, gilt. With dustjacket. 254 pp. and 16 plates with 17 ill.; 24 cm. - (sl. discoloured, although very good) ISBN: 0879758406
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Details
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Title
Looking for a miracle. Weeping icons, relics, stigmata, visions & healing cures
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Author
NICKELL, JOE
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
1st Edition
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Pages
253
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993, Amherst, NY
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Date
1993-09-01
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Features
Dust Cover, Index
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Bookseller's Inventory #
18784
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ISBN
9780879758400 / 0879758406
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Weight
1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
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Dimensions
9.28 x 6.4 x 1.04 in (23.57 x 16.26 x 2.64 cm)
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Reading level
1710
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
93025322
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Dewey Decimal Code
231.73
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From the publisher
Joe Nickell has been called "the modern Sherlock Holmes" and "the real-life Scully" (from the X-Files). He has been on the trail of mysterious creatures and phenomena for four decades. Since 1995 he has been the world’s only full-time, professional, science-based paranormal investigator. His careful, often-innovative investigations have won him international respect in a field charged with controversy. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Tracking the Man Beasts; Real or Fake? Studies in Authentication; and Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. Among his other books are Psychic Sleuths, Looking for a Miracle, and Secrets of the Supernatural. See www.joenickell.com for more.
From the rear cover
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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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/1993, Page 9
- Library Journal, 09/01/1993, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 08/02/1993, Page 0
About the author
Joe Nickell has been called "the modern Sherlock Holmes" and "the real-life Scully" (from the X-Files). He has been on the trail of mysterious creatures and phenomena for four decades. Since 1995 he has been the world's only full-time, professional, science-based paranormal investigator. His careful, often-innovative investigations have won him international respect in a field charged with controversy. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Tracking the Man Beasts; Real or Fake? Studies in Authentication; and Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. Among his other books are Psychic Sleuths, Looking for a Miracle, and Secrets of the Supernatural. See www.joenickell.com for more.