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Article: Introduction: faith healing revisited. (Faith Healing: Miracle or Mirage?)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 22, 1993
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Pioneering work in faith healing investigation was undertaken in 1986 by the conjurer James Randi in cooperation with FREE INQUIRY magazine. This study focused on fundamentalist faith healers then active, including Ernest Angley, W. V. Grant, Peter Popoff, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and others.(*) Faith healing had become an extremely popular part of the religious landscape, with the faith healers regularly appearing on television. They appeared in huge amphitheaters or convention centers packed with fervent and often desperate people seeking miraculous healings. Many of these latter-day faith healers claimed that they cured hundreds, even thousands, of people every night. ...