… is that throughout American history drugs have factored significantly … religious community.
There is, perhaps, a tendency to focus on the role that drugs play in eliciting personal religious …

… Minimally, I would like to begin with a touch of rationality in our absurd drug laws, which …
I was surprised to hear him say, “Legalize drugs.” And he’s very Republican—conservative …

… as if the drugs have light to throw on the history of religion, … that if drug and non-drug
religious experiences cannot be … guishes them and renders the drug experience profane, I wish …

… Natural religion typically holds that everyone can have … for religious drug use to act as
defiant rebellion from religious … Fuller's historical chapters start with Native American religious …

… , it would therefore from a perspective of hierarchical religions seem preferable to prohibit
such drugs. As Fuller stated in his exposition of the role of drugs in American religious history: …

… One of those fronts has been the drug war. The single most important fact about US drug
laws (and by "drugs" I narrowly mean the opiates, cocaine, marijuana, and hallucinogens) is …

… This essay examines the attitudes of US Christians toward illicit drugs. It traces an ideological
history. Classical Christianity espoused temperance rather than abstinence for alcohol. …

… : Drug Use in American Religious History, the biggest concern for and attack on the religious
use of drug-… The attacks and concerns of drug use in religious contexts I will argue are, …

… these drugs in these settings. Each chapter-length case study develops a discrete illustration
of Fuller's thesis that drugs … central focus is ecstatic religion or druginduced religiosity. Fuller …

… histories, the reader can understand why an addict who sells drugs to help support his habit
is no more a drug … by religious and civil institutions, and served to justify the proscription of …