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Miracles: Wonder and Meaning in World Religions - Softcover

Weddle, David L.

 
9780814794166: Miracles: Wonder and Meaning in World Religions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814794165 ISBN 13: 9780814794166
Verlag: New York University, 2010

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Despite the dominance of scientific explanation in the modern world, at the beginning of the twenty-first century faith in miracles remains strong, particularly in resurgent forms of traditional religion. In Miracles, David L. Weddle examines how five religious traditions-Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam-understand miracles, considering how they express popular enthusiasm for wondrous tales, how they provoke official regulation because of their potential to disrupt authority, and how they are denied by critics within each tradition who regard belief in miracles as an illusory distraction from moral responsibility.
In dynamic and accessible prose, Weddle shows us what miracles are, what they mean, and why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, they are still significant today: belief in miracles sustains the hope that, if there is a reality that surpasses our ordinary lives, it is capable of exercising-from time to time-creative, liberating, enlightening, and healing power in our world.

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David L. Weddle is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Colorado College, where he taught courses in philosophy of religion, ethics, comparative religious studies, and American religions. He is the author of Miracles: Wonder and Meaning in World Religions (NYU Press, 2010) and holds lifetime honorary membership in the American Academy of Religion.

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Verlag
New York University
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814794165
ISBN 13 
9780814794166
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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