Wondrous Events : : Foundations of Religious Belief /

Wondrous Events : : Foundations of Religious Belief / / 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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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McClenon, James,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 24 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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