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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Toward a Science of Miracles | |
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| Miraculous Effigies | |
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| Miracle Idols | |
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| Miracle Statue of Belgium | |
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| The Idol of Pachacamac | |
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| The Holy Image of Guadalupe | |
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| The Painting That Performs a Miracle | |
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| Jesus under the Microscope | |
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| Snapshot Miracles | |
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| Grilled-Cheese Madonna | |
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| Animated Images: The "New" Idolatry | |
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| A Weeping Icon and the Crime Laboratory | |
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| The Case of the Miracle Oil | |
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| Hindu Statues That Drink Milk | |
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| The Statues That Glow | |
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| Magical Relics | |
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| The True Cross: Chaucer, Calvin, and Relic Mongers | |
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| The Holy Blood | |
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| The Image of Edessa Revealed | |
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| The Holy Mandylion: A D�j�-View | |
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| Miracle or Fraud? The Turin Shroud | |
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| Artistry and the Shroud | |
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| Oviedo's Holy Sudarium | |
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| Miraculous Relics | |
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| In Search of the Emerald Grail | |
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| St. James's Miraculous Relics | |
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| "Incorruptible" Corpses | |
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| Miracle Healings | |
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| Jesus' Healings | |
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| Lourdes and Other Healing Waters | |
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| The Belgian Lourdes | |
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| Miracle Dirt of Chimay� | |
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| Peter Popoff's "Gift of Knowledge" | |
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| Benny Hinn's Miracle Crusades | |
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| Spiritist Healer: "John of God" | |
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| Healings by a "Victim Soul" | |
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| Visionary Experiences | |
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| Jesus' Resurrection Apparitions | |
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| "Visions" behind The Passion | |
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| Eucharistic Signs | |
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| The Secrets of Fatima | |
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| The Medjugorje Phenomenon | |
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| Guardian Angel Encounters | |
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| Heaven's Stenographer | |
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| The Mormon Seer | |
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| Visits from the Beyond | |
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| Saintly Powers | |
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| Miracles-or Parables? | |
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| Miracle Worker of Amsterdam | |
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| Mysteries of Popular Saints | |
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| Tijuana's Murderer "Saint" | |
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| Stigmata: Wounds of Christ | |
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| The Case of Padre P�o | |
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| Stigmata of a Convert | |
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| Taking Up Serpents | |
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| Additional Pentecostal Powers | |
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| Loretto Staircase: St. Joseph's Miracle Carpentry? | |
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| The Devil's Work? | |
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| Exorcising Demons | |
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| Horror at Amityville | |
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| Demon Victims I Have Known | |
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| Satan's Step | |
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| Footprints of the Devil? | |
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| Fire from Heaven-or Hell? | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |