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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798043303321

Autore

Shipley Morgan

Titolo

Psychedelic mysticism : transforming consciousness, religious experiences, and voluntary peasants in postwar America / / Morgan Shipley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0910-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

200.19

Soggetti

Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience

Hallucinogenic drugs - Social aspects - United States - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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Sommario/riassunto

Although commonly celebrated as a distinct manifestation of Americana, hippies and psychedelics are routinely de-emphasized in favor of direct political activism, a phenomenon that constrains the full telling of the hippie counterculture as it relates to a radical religiosity defined by mutuality and altruism. Psychedelic Mysticism reevaluates the religious significance of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture, tracing how psychedelics became entheogenic, leading sixties figures to transition personal moments of enlightenment into everyday projects of social justice.