Wondrous Events
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Wondrous Events

Foundations of Religious Belief

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Wondrous Events

Foundations of Religious Belief

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James McClenon examines the relationship between wondrous events—extrasensory perception, apparitions, out-of-body and near-death experiences, sleep paralysis, psychokinesis, firewalking, psychic surgery, and spiritual healing—and the foundations of religious belief.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Year
2016
ISBN
9781512804201
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
History of Religion

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. 1. Wondrous Events and Social Science
  5. 2. Surveys of Anomalous Experience: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
  6. 3. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Wondrous Event Narratives
  7. 4. Haunting and Poltergeist Cases: Constructing Folk Belief
  8. 5. Psychic Practitioners and Wondrous Events
  9. 6. Performing Wondrous Events: ESP, Psychic Surgery, and Firewalking
  10. 7. Wondrous Events and Audience Attraction
  11. 8. Wondrous Events and Religious History in Medieval Asia and Europe
  12. 9. Near-Death Experiences in Medieval Europe, China, and Japan
  13. 10. The Scientific Investigation of Wondrous Events
  14. 11. Wondrous Events in a Small Group: A Field Study
  15. 12. Wondrous Events and the Future of Religion
  16. Appendix: Unusual Experience Questionnaire
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index