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Paperback Drugs, Addiction, and Initiation: The Modern Search for Ritual Book

ISBN: 093843439X

ISBN13: 9780938434399

Drugs, Addiction, and Initiation: The Modern Search for Ritual

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Luigi Zoja argues that the pervasive abuse of drugs in our society can in large part be ascribed to a resurgence of the collective need for initiation and initiatory structures: a longing for something sacred underlies our cultures manic drive toward excessive consumption. In a society without ritual, the drug addict seeks not so much the thrill of a high as the satisfaction of an inner need for a participation mystique in the dominant religion of...

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