Superstition : Belief in the Age of Science /

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"From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Park, Robert L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religion and sociology.
Religion and science.
Belief and doubt.
RELIGION > Ethics.
RELIGION > General.
Croyance et doute.
Sociologie religieuse.
Religion et sciences.
Religion and Science
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lessons from a tree
  • A bigger prize : in which we discover scientists of faith
  • The secret of life : in which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives
  • Miracle at Columbia : in which both sides pray for victory
  • Giving up the ghost : in which we search for the soul
  • The silent army : in which we search for an afterlife
  • The tsunami God : in which the innocent suffer
  • The new age : in which anything goes
  • Schrödinger's grave : in which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition
  • The barbary duck : in which the body heals itself
  • The deer : in which the placebo effect is explained
  • The moral law : in which we instinctively know right from wrong
  • The last butterfly : in which there is no place else to go.

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