Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions & Healing Cures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573926805)

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.

Author: Joe Nickell
ISBN-10: 1573926809
ISBN-13: 9781573926805
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1999
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.98w x 0.75d