Wondrous Events : : Foundations of Religious Belief / / James McClenon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: McClenon, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 24 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; 1. Wondrous Events and Social Science --; 2. Surveys of Anomalous Experience: A Cross-Cultural Analysis --; 3. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Wondrous Event Narratives --; 4. Haunting and Poltergeist Cases: Constructing Folk Belief --; 5. Psychic Practitioners and Wondrous Events --; 6. Performing Wondrous Events: ESP, Psychic Surgery, and Firewalking --; 7. Wondrous Events and Audience Attraction --; 8. Wondrous Events and Religious History in Medieval Asia and Europe --; 9. Near-Death Experiences in Medieval Europe, China, and Japan --; 10. The Scientific Investigation of Wondrous Events --; 11. Wondrous Events in a Small Group: A Field Study --; 12. Wondrous Events and the Future of Religion --; Appendix: Unusual Experience Questionnaire --; Notes --; References --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512804201; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512804201
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James McClenon.

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.