Stairways to heaven

drugs in American religious history

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Stairways to heaven

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"From Native Americans' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths, to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have been intimately associated with American spirituality. In Stairways to Heaven, Robert C. Fuller presents a rarely considered but very important dimension of American religious history - the use of mind-altering substances as an aid to spirituality - in a clear, engaging style.

Fuller's entertaining narrative illustrates how such substances as peyote, jimson weed, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, marijuana, wine, and coffee have stimulated ecstatic revelations of spiritual truth and strengthened the social bonds that sustain communities of faith."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
237

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Stairways to heaven: drugs in American religious history
2000, Westview Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [[217]-221) and index.

Published in
Boulder, Colo

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
291.4/2
Library of Congress
BL65.D7 F85 2000, BL 65 D7 F85 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 237 p. ;
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL52614M
Internet Archive
stairwaystoheave00full
ISBN 10
0813366127
LCCN
99059998
OCLC/WorldCat
43115003
Library Thing
1566279
Goodreads
927714

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