Medjugorje and the Supernatural

Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience

Daniel Maria Klimek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

390 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-067920-0 (ISBN)

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In 1981, six young people in the village of Medjugorje, in what was then Yugoslavia (now Bosnia-Herzegovina), reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorge 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 visionary experiences--apparitions of the Virgin Mary, visions of Jesus Christ, weeping statues and icons, the stigmata, physical healings and miracles, 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, like 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. Daniel Klimek argues that the case of Medjugorje affords a rare opportunity to understand a deeper dimension of extraordinary religious phenomena. Presenting and analyzing the scientific studies on the visionaries in juxtaposition with the major scholars and debates surrounding religious experience, Klimek concludes that a multidisciplinary approach grants a more holistic and deeper understanding of such extraordinary religious experiences.

Daniel Maria Klimek is a Franciscan friar and a Lecturer in the School of Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University. He earned his PhD in religion and theology at the Catholic University of America.

INTRODUCTION: The Silence of the Birds

CHAPTER 1: The Young Woman on the Hill
CHAPTER 2: Public Revelation and Private Revelation: How the Catholic Church Discerns the Supernatural
CHAPTER 3: Mysticism in the Twentieth Century
CHAPTER 4: The Great Debate
CHAPTER 5: Medical and Scientific Studies on the Apparitions in Medjugorje
CHAPTER 6: Medjugorje's Uniqueness: A Different Case Study for Neuroscience
CHAPTER 7: Learning from Shortcomings, Moving Forward with New Methods

CONCLUSION: Contributions to the "Eternal-Battleground"

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-067920-4 / 0190679204
ISBN-13	978-0-19-067920-0 / 9780190679200
Zustand	Neuware