| Zen, Drugs, and Mysticism Revised Edition Contributor(s): Zaehner, R. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819172669 ISBN-13: 9780819172662 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $68.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Reference |
| Dewey: 200.19 |
| LCCN: 88037081 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The author, one of the foremost writers in the history of religions, intended this book to be the starting point for those searching for a personal religious experience and begins with an examination of the nature of mystical states and their differentiation from drug-induced states. He proceeds to the question of whether there is religious experience to either state. He offers those impatient with a traditional Christianity alternate routes to explore, by examining Zen, the Upanishads, Huxley, Bonhoeffer, Leary, Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and commenting upon each with his ascerbic wit. This reprint of the 1972 American edition published by Pantheon contains a new foreword by one of Zaehner's former Oxford students, William L. Newell. |