Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226453871
• ISBN13: 9780226453873
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"