Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures - Softcover

Joe Nickell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573926809 ISBN 13: 9781573926805

Publisher: Prometheus Books, 1999

Synopsis

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About this title

Synopsis:

The willingness of people to believe in magical icons, mystical relics, and miraculous pictures (like the Image of Guadalupe) is almost as curious as these phenomena themselves. Though they cry out for scientific investigation, millions of people blindly accept them as fact. Historical and paranormal investigator Joe Nickell confronts such strange events, powers, and objects as the Shroud of Turin, bleeding or weeping statues, burning handprints, liquefying blood, ecstatic visions, miraculous cures, and people speaking in tongues in "Looking for a Miracle". Departing from standard critiques of religion, Nickell carefully investigates the evidence relating to specific claims. Religious believers and rationalists alike have much to learn from this revealing examination of the evidence for the miraculous.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1573926809
• ISBN 13: 9781573926805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253