Sacred Drugs: How Psychoactive Substances Mix with Religious Life

Sacred Drugs explores the ways in which psychoactive substances from alcohol, cannabis, and pharmaceuticals to coffee and tobacco, intersect with religious life. This book will be the go-to volume for readers interested in the complex relationship between religious life and psychoactive substances.

Gary Laderman is Goodrich C. White Professor of American Religious History and Cultures, Emory University, USA.