Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety

Title: Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
Author: Wendy Kaminer
E: 1700810
ISBN: 9780679758860
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 288
Section: Social Science | Sociology | General
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Publisher Description: In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense belief have largely taken the place of rational discourse. In a world in which "How do you feel," seems to be a more frequently asked question than "What do you know," Kaminer's examination of the rise of spiritualism, the mushrooming junk science, and the habitual merging of political and evangelical speech, blazes with relevance and incisive wit.

Probing the amusing and ominous implications of rampant credulity in our age, Kaminer raises important questions, and provides a thoughtful and eloquent perspective on the perils of present-day irrationalism.