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Title: Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History by Robert C. Fuller ISBN: 0-8133-6612-7 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: "Must" reading for students of religion & drug use.
Comment: Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History is a unique, seminal work spanning Native Americas' use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses. Robert Fuller presents an important, overlooked aspect of American religious history -- the use of mind-altering substances as an aid to spirituality ranging from peyote, jimson weed, and hallucinogenic mushrooms, to LSD, marijuana, wine, and coffee. Stairways To Heaven explores many of the questions surrounding the use of drugs in religious life including drugs use to induce "authentic" religious experience; religious experience as an aberration in brain chemistry; how much drug use can be tolerated under the auspices of religious freedom; the legitimate role of mind-altering substances in the development of mature spirituality. Stairways To Heaven is "must" reading for students of spirituality, American religious history, and the ritual use of mind-altering substances.

Rating: 5
Summary: An intriguing history.
Comment: How have Americans used drugs to establish and forge religious foundations? Stairways to Heaven provides a survey and analysis of the use of mind-altering substances as an aid to spirituality, with chapters considering the foundations of religious experience, the role of drugs in creating or altering such experiences, and links between religious freedom and the nation's war on drugs. An intriguing history.