Koichi Shinohara is a senior lecturer in the department of religious studies at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She wrote the entry “Changing Roles of Miraculous Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism” for the publication Images, Miracles and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions.

Eitan P. Fishbane is an assistant professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, the intellectual center of Conservative Judaism. Fishbane is an expert in the history and literature of Jewish mysticism, including medieval Kabbalah.

Seung Ai Yang is an associate professor of sacred Scripture at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. She wrote the entry on miracles for the Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible.

Read The Skeptic’s Dictionary entry on miracles.

Read the entry on miracles in the 1911 edition of The Catholic Encyclopedia. (The 1911 edition has since been superseded in some respects, but this entry is a good historical overview.)

Read the essay on miracles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which includes David Hume’s well-known argument against the likelihood of miracles and a discussion of the religious significance of miracles.

ChristusRex lists Marian apparitions in the United States.

Read a May 21, 2001, Christianity Today essay about how to identify a real miracle from God.

Read the transcript of a Feb. 23, 2010, article from NPR. It discusses the results of a survey from the Pew Forum on Religion that showed that almost 80 percent of Americans believe in miracles.