LOOKING FOR A MIRACLE - weeping icons, relics, stigmata, visions & healing cures

NICKELL, JOE

ISBN 10: 0879758406 / ISBN 13: 9780879758400

Published by Prometheus Books, Amherst/New York, 1993

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Contents: I). Introduction. II). Miraculous pictures. 1). The Edessan image. 2). The Shroud of Turin. 3). The image of Guadalupe. 4). Other miraculous pictures. III). Magical icons. 5). Weeping icons. 6). Bleeding effigies. 7). Other animated figures. IV). Mystical relics. 8). The blood of St. Januarius. 9). Januarius and the Pozzuoli stone. 10). The incorruptibles. 10). Burning handprints. V). Pentecostal powers. 11). Speaking in tongues. 12). Prophecy. 13). Taking up serpents. 14). Other immunities. VI). Faith healing. 15). How faith healing 'cures'. 16). 'Healing', hoopla and hoaxes. 17). Lourdes. 18). Prophets of healing. VII). Ecstatic visions. 19). Marian apparitions. 20). 'Miracles' at Fatima. 21). Hoax at Garabandal. 21). Mystery at Zeitoun. 22). Medjugorje mania. 23). Other apparitions. VIII). Sanctified powers. 24). Luminosity. 25). Levitation. 26). Bilocation. 27). Stigmata. 28). Inedia. 29). Exorcism. 30). Apport production. IX). Afterword. With 17 illustrations and index. 253 pag. Size: 23,5cmx16cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LOOKING FOR A MIRACLE - weeping icons, relics, stigmata, visions & healing cures
• Publisher: Prometheus Books, Amherst/New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879758406
• ISBN 13: 9780879758400
• Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Fine copy.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Algemeen - General

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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.