Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety - Tapa dura

Kaminer, Wendy

 
9780679442431: Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
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ISBN 10: 067944243X ISBN 13: 9780679442431
Editorial: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Sinopsis

Examines the dramatic growth of the irrational and supernaturalism in modern society, criticizing the fascination with paranormal and supernatural phenomena, exploring its roots, and detailing the irrationalism of the new digital culture

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Wendy Kaminer is the author of five previous books, including <b>I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional</b>; her articles and reviews have appeared in <i>The New York Times, Newsweek, The Nation</i>, and <i>The New Republic</i>. She is a contributing editor at <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> and a fellow at Radcliffe College.

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eping with Extra-Terrestrials</b>, Wendy Kaminer argues that we are a society intoxicated by the irrational: religion, spirituality, and popular therapies threaten to replace rational thought with supernaturalism and impassioned but unexamined personal testimony. Ranging from our fascination with angels, aliens, and near- death experiences to the rise of junk science, the recovery movement, and the digital culture, Kaminer points out the amusing and ominous effects of our deference to spiritual authorities and resistance to critical thinking. She questions conventional wisdom about the association of religious belief with virtue, identifying the sectarianism of efforts to establish religion in the public square. With both wit and empathy, Kaminer takes on what many people hold sacred.<br> <br>Kaminer is an eloquent and incisive critic and rationalist living in a superstitious, evangelical age. In <b>Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials</b> she

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Editorial
Random House USA Inc
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
067944243X
ISBN 13 
9780679442431
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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ISBN 10:  0679758860 ISBN 13:  9780679758860
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000
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