| Description |
1 online resource : 24 illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Parapsychology -- Case studies
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Parapsychology -- Religious aspects.
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Religion and sociology.
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sociology of religion.
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RELIGION -- History.
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Parapsychology
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Parapsychology -- Religious aspects
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Religion and sociology
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781512804201 |
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1512804207 |
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