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The attraction of peyote : an inquiry into the basic conditions of the diffusion of the peyote religion in North America by Hultkrantz, Åke is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The attraction of peyote : an inquiry into the basic conditions of the diffusion of the peyote religion in North America about?
This book discusses the Peyote religion, a religion centered around the ritual consumption of the Peyote cactus. Its ecclesiastical organization, the North American Church, has stirred some attention among scholars, most of them anthropologists. The author describes what he calls all the "nativistic" religious movements which have emerged in the Peyote tradition in North America over the past 200 years.
Who reads The attraction of peyote : an inquiry into the basic conditions of the diffusion of the peyote religion in North America?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Hultkrantz, Åke
- Publisher
- Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789122017127
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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