The Faith Healers

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The Faith Healers is a 1987 book by

magician and skeptic James Randi with a
foreword by Carl Sagan, that documents
Randi's exploration of the world of faith
healing, and his exposing the sleight of
hand trickery and deceit by its
practitioners.
The Faith Healers

Author James Randi (Foreword by Carl

Sagan)

Publisher Prometheus Books

Publication 1987, 1989
date

Mediatype Hardcover/Paperback

Pages 328

ISBN 0-87975-369-2

OCLC 16353426
Dewey 615.8/52 19
Decimal

LCClass BT732.5 .R36 1987

In eighteen chapters Randi explores the

origins of faith healing and psychic
surgery, and critically analyzes the claims
made by A. A. Allen, Ernest Angley, Willard
Fuller, WV Grant, Peter Popoff, Oral
Roberts, Pat Robertson, and Ralph DiOrio
for his claims of miracles at the Sanctuary
of Our Lady of Lourdes in the town of
Lourdes. Randi shows how people are
tricked with magician's tricks under the
guise of religion.

In 1988, Earl Hautala in a review wrote "an

eye opener for the nave, this book
provides a crash course in the methods of
skeptical inquiry."[1] The New Scientist
praised the book in a 1990 review.[2]

See also
See also
James Randi Educational Foundation

References
1. Hautala, Earl. (1988). The Faith Healers by
James Randi. ETC: A Review of General
Semantics. Vol. 45, No. 2. p. 197
2. Herbert, Roy (17 February 1990). "Money
for old soap / Review of 'The Faith
Healers' " . New Scientist. Retrieved 2007-03-
11.

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