{"product_id":"stairways-to-heaven-robert-c-fuller-9780813366128","title":"Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History","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 \u003ci\u003eStairways to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert 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.\u003ci\u003eStairways to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is unique in the study of American religious history in two ways: first, it demonstrates that the ritual use of mind-altering substances has contributed to the innovation and diversity that characterize American religious life; second, it uses interdisciplinary research into the religious uses of drugs to shed light on the controversial legal, ethical, and spiritual controversies that surround drug use in the contemporary United States. The book's final chapter assesses the usefulness of drugs in the quest for a mature, life-affirming, community-building, creative spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert W. Fuller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813366127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813366128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.28w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2000 pg. 8","brand":"Robert W. Fuller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059825406207,"sku":"9780813366128","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0746cab9-8aae-469b-a1e7-9ca847094f43.jpg?v=1685060548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stairways-to-heaven-robert-c-fuller-9780813366128","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}