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Looking for a Miracle
Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures
By Joe Nickell
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253 Pages, Hardcover
Cover Size: 6 x 9 inches
Prometheus Books
Related listings: Paranormal Skepticism
and Religious Skepticism
Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-87975-840-6
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 2/26/98
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Publisher's Synopsis
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 enquirer assess the conflicting evidence and reach a
conclusion?
These and related questions are answered in the 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 (going without food), and the ability to produce
objects out of
thin air.
Looking for a miracle is a wide-ranging investigative study of a controversial 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.
Joe Nickell is a former stage magician and private investigator who has been featured in
Discovery,
Omni magazine and Scientific American. He now teaches technical writing at the University of
Kentucky, where he is Writing Program adjunct to the College of Engineering. Dr. Nickell's
other
books include Inquest on the Shroud of Turin, Mysterious Realms, and, for young people, Wonder
Workers!, and The Magic Detectives, all published by Prometheus Books.
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