Review: God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-time Religion, by Don Lattin

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-time Religion, by Don Lattin God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-time Religion. By Don Lattin. Apocryphile. 2023. 188 pages. $18.00 softcover; ebook available. Brad Stoddard Brad Stoddard McDaniel College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (2): 142–144. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.142 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brad Stoddard; Review: God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-time Religion, by Don Lattin. Nova Religio 1 November 2023; 27 (2): 142–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.142 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search In God on Psychedelics, Don Lattin observes and reflects on two concurrent phenomena—the decline in institutional religiosity and the rising interest in psychedelics drugs, commonly called the Psychedelic Renaissance (PR), where Americans are increasingly exploring the therapeutic, medicinal, and religiospiritual (aka entheogenic) aspects of psychedelics. The veteran journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle’s religion beat engages these two trends to ask the following questions: “How does the psychedelic revival fit into the larger story of American religion” (x), why do few people in the PR connect entheogenic experiences to their own religious traditions, and what can “mainstream churches and synagogues” (xi) and “entheogenic explorers” (xi) learn from each other? To address these questions, Lattin explores historical precedent for and contemporary manifestations of entheogenic activism over seven overlapping chapters. The historical analysis begins with William James, the first scholar to argue comprehensively for an association of religion and psychoactive substances.... You do not currently have access to this content.