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Religion --- Controversial literature.

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Catholic Church --- Église catholique --- Controversial literature.

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"This text explores faith healing and similar phenomena. Specifically, the author seeks to determine the facts surrounding such acts and how they can be explained. Particular areas of focus are as follows: astrology, divination, and coincidences; dreams, nightmares, and somnambulism; presentiments, visions, and apparitions; witchcraft; and "Christian science" and "mind cure." The author states that the link connecting the subjects treated in this volume is their dependence upon mental states. Should it be thought that astrology, divination, apparitions, and witchcraft are based upon objective facts, it is believed that the method of their explanation will show that they are properly classified. The author has adopted certain principles as working laws: namely, that before endeavoring to explain how phenomena exist, it is necessary to determine precisely what exists; and that so long as it is possible to find a rational explanation of what unquestionably is, there is no reason to suspect, and it is superstition to assume, the operation of supernatural causes"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Spiritual healing. --- Christian Science --- Superstition. --- Controversial literature.

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In Europe religion and the secular are often depicted as inherently opposed to one another, with religions often considered to be only relevant to private affairs and personal beliefs. In contrast, the public sphere is understood as a secular and rational place where religious influence must be curtailed. In this binary perspective, Islam is viewed as misunderstanding the nature of religion and the secular because it seeks to enter the public space and does not properly accept the separation of religion and state. By contrast, Europe is associated with political secularism and it is presumed to be both secular and Judeo-Christian. This leaves other religious traditions, especially Islam and Muslims, as outside the dominant vision of Europe. The book brings authors together who share a vision of Europe beyond these binaries. It shows paths to a fruitful encounter of religion and secularities in Europe on the one hand and of Judaism, Christianity and Islam on the other.

Older people --- Rationalism. --- Religion --- Religious life. --- Controversial literature.