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Stairways to heaven : drugs in American religious history

Author: Robert C Fuller
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert C Fuller
ISBN: 0813366127 9780813366128
OCLC Number: 43115003
Description: ix, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: From the plant kingdom to the kingdom of God --
The Native American heritage --
Psychedelics and metaphysical illumination --
Wine and the varieties of American religious life --
Drugs, aesthetics, and unchurched spirituality --
The quest for ecstasy.
Responsibility: Robert C. Fuller.
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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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