Spiritual Snake Oil | Free Book

Spiritual Snake Oil | Free Book

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Fads & Fallacies in Pop Culture
Publisher:See Sharp Press
Published:June 2011; Copyright
ISBN:9781884365935
Title:Spiritual Snake Oil
Author:S.C. Hitchcock
Imprint:See Sharp Press
Language:English
Number of Pages:157
"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.

About the Author

S.C. Hitchcock is one of the most promising young "New Atheist" writers. He has written for the two most prominent American skeptical magazines, "Free Inquiry" and "Skeptic," as well as a number of smaller periodicals. He is also the author of "Disbelief 101" (See Sharp Press, 2009), which "Booklist" called "chatty, totally irreverent."

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