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Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Paperback)

by Joe Nickell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 253 pages
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books; 2nd printing edition (19 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1573926809
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573926805
  • Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Much needed inquiry, 4 Jun 1999
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This review is from: Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Hardcover)
Joe Nickell doesn't question anyone's right to believe what they want, he simply questions those who would manipulate the faithful with false religious tangibility. Religion is not tangible, it is based on faith, and those who would use that faith for their own ends need to be exposed. A previous reviewer asked what could possibly be gained by 6,000 years of religious fakery? The naivete of that question shows that it is obviously being asked by someone too fearful to question the validity of their own faith. Control, power, fortune...aren't those the things we fight for even today? why is the Catholic church so rich? Is it because they don't want to be? That they are indifferent to the wealth gleaned from their faithful? Joe Nickell is among the astute observers of human behavior who simply wants to point out that devout religious faith, to the individual, is a choice for them to make, but devout religious faith manipulation and chicanery are much more common and need to be exposed for what they are, methods of controlling those who would not otherwise ask if the emperor, pope, minister, or faith-healer has any clothes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. Should be read by all "believers.", 15 April 1999
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Insightful and thought-provoking examination of the need of humans to believe in a higher power, even to the point of imagining and making-up miracles. In addition Mr. Nickell shows other less noble ideas of what caused a "miracle" such as greed. I think this book will get some readers to outwardly show anger. However, inside I bet they are questioning their beliefs. Afterall, a good book should give you something to think about for a while even if it scares you. Bravo!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars This book tells it like it is., 1 April 1998
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This review is from: Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Hardcover)
No amount of anecdotal evidence is proof of anything. The simple truth is that there is not one single shred of scientifically verifiable evidence for miracles which would have required a suspension of the laws of nature to be true. The chapter on miracle cures is especially telling; the charlatans that prey on the sick cause tremendous harm to individuals and society - and the author makes that point tellingly. My only criticism of the book is that it is too short. More please!
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I used to think that new age books stretched the credibility of readers, but the award has to go to Nickells book. Read more
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