Medjugorje and the supernatural: science, mysticism, and extraordinary religious experience 1st Edition Klimek

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• ISBN-10: 0190679220
• ISBN-13: 9780190679224
• Author: Daniel Maria Klimek

In June 1981, six young Croatians in the village of Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world.Throughout history, people have reported encountering extraordinary religious experiences-apparitions of the Virgin Mary, visions of Jesus Christ, weeping statues and icons, the stigmata, physical healings and miracles, and experiences of the afterlife-and interpreted them as supernatural in origin. Scholars have often tried to reinterpret such experiences, including those described by the great mystics like Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila, into natural or psychopathological categories, such as hysteria, hallucination, delusion, epileptic seizures, psychosis, the workings of the unconscious mind, or fraud. Are such reductionist explanations valid?Over the past three decades the Medjugorje visionaries have been subjected to extensive medical, psychological, and scientific examination, even while undergoing their visionary experiences.

Table contents:

1. The Young Woman on the Hill

2. Public Revelation and Private Revelation: How the Catholic Church Discerns the Supernatural

3. Mysticism in the Twentieth Century

4. The Great Debate

5. Medical and Scientific Studies on the Apparitions in Medjugorje

6. Medjugorje’s Uniqueness: A Different Case Study for Neuroscience

7. Learning from Shortcomings, Moving Forward with New Methods

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