Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads & Fallacies in Pop Culture - Couverture souple

Edwards, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1884365795 ISBN 13 : 9781884365799

Editeur : See Sharp Press, 2011

Synopsis

Spiritual Snake Oil"" shows that the same fallacies that plague religious apologetics also infect virtually all ""new age"" and ""spiritual"" writing. Author Chris Edwards does this by dissecting the arguments and assertions of the most prominent ""new age"" icons and ""spiritual"" writers. They include Robert Pirsig (""Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance""), James Redfield (""The Celestine Prophecy""), Deepak Chopra (""Life After Death""), Dinesh D'Souza (""Life After Death""), Francis Collins's (""The Language of God""), Rhonda Byrne (""The Secret""), and even Michael Crichton (a surprising defender of New Age thinking). As Edwards shows, the same fallacies, the same errors in argument, show up time after time in the writings of these--and virtually all other--""new age"" and ""spiritual"" writers. In addition to explaining these fallacies in the chapters devoted to the individual authors, Edwards devotes a final chapter, ""A Compendium of Fallacies,"" to outlining the tricks and deceptive practices common to illogical arguments.

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À propos de l'auteur

Chris Edwards is the author of Disbelief 101 and has written extensively for many skeptical and secularist periodicals, including the two most prominent, Free Inquiry and Skeptic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: See Sharp Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1884365795
• ISBN 13: 9781884365799
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 154
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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