9780300052664-0300052669-Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion

ISBN-13: 9780300052664
ISBN-10: 0300052669
Edition: Revised
Author: R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, Jonathan Ott
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 257 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300052664
ISBN-10: 0300052669
Edition: Revised
Author: R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, Jonathan Ott
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 257 pages

Summary

Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion (ISBN-13: 9780300052664 and ISBN-10: 0300052669), written by authors R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Carl Ruck, Jonathan Ott, was published by Yale University Press in 1992. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Religious (Comparative Religion, Religious Studies, History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Religious books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.51.

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This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."

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