{"product_id":"other-worlds-christopher-g-white-9780674984295","title":"Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist s ances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world's most talented physicists. The other is a spiritual practice widely thought of as backward, the product of a mystical world view fading under the modern scientific gaze. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Christopher G. White sees striking similarities. He does not claim that s ances or other spiritual practices are science. Yet he points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even the existential meaning of the universe. \u003ci\u003eOther Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how the idea that the universe has multiple, invisible dimensions has inspired science fiction, fantasy novels, films, modern art, and all manner of spiritual thought reaching well beyond the realm of formal religion. Drawing on a range of international archives, White analyzes how writers, artists, filmmakers, televangelists, and others have used the scientific idea of invisible dimensions to make supernatural phenomena such as ghosts and miracles seem more reasonable and make spiritual beliefs possible again for themselves and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany regard scientific ideas as disenchanting and secularizing, but \u003ci\u003eOther Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eshows that these ideas--creatively appropriated in such popular forms as C. S. Lewis's \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Narnia, \u003c\/i\u003e the art of Salvador Dal , or the books of the counterculture physicist \"Dr. Quantum\"--restore a sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see, helping to forge an unexpected kind of spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher G. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674984293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674984295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018","brand":"Christopher G. White","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44598241951999,"sku":"9780674984295","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac413e27-4288-48aa-9bbd-dc9680513875.jpg?v=1702381398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/other-worlds-christopher-g-white-9780674984295","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}