Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety - Rilegato

Kaminer, Wendy

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ISBN 10: 067944243X ISBN 13: 9780679442431

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1999

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In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, 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.
        
Kaminer is an eloquent and incisive critic and rationalist living in a superstitious, evangelical age. In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials she challenges us to exercise skepticism, reason, and irreverence and to appreciate the pleasures of free inquiry.

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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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 067944243X
• ISBN 13: 9780679442431
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278
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