The production of entheogenic communities in the United States
The rise of entheogenic religion - that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs - has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broad...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge elements. Elements in new religious movements
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| Further subjects: | B
Cults (United States)
B Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience (United States) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781009517409 |
| Summary: | The rise of entheogenic religion - that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs - has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broadly. This Element breaks with these approaches as it offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups in the United States and considers the historical factors that have contributed to the rise in psychedelics more broadly. It also explores legal considerations and the impact of the law as a curator of entheogenic communities. This Element recognizes that these communities - like all imagined communities - are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent. By exploring these contingencies, we learn more about the broader sociocultural, historical, and economic frameworks that underlie the burgeoning association of psychoactive substances and religion. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2024) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (72 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-42941-2 978-1-009-51740-9 978-1-009-42940-5 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009429412 |
