Stairways to heaven
drugs in American religious history
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Word Count
59,250 words, Guess
Page Count
237 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL52614M
- ISBN-100813366127
- OCLC Control Number43115003
- OCLC Control Numberstairwaystoheave00full
- Library of Congress Control Number99059998
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- LibraryThing1566279
- Goodreads927714
Classifications
- DDC291.4/2
- LCCBL65.D7 F85 2000
Description
"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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