AUTHORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE |
Subtitle:
The Paranormal and the Sacred
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Book Category:
Philosophy > Metaphysics
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Author:
Kripal, Jeffrey J.
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780226453866?
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Price:
USD 37.50
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Publication Year:
2010
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Publisher Info
Carol Kasper,
University of Chicago Press,1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago ,
Illinois - 60637,USA
Web: www.press.uchicago.edu Inquiry
Book Description
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion.
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