Drugs, Addiction and Initiation: The Modern Search for Ritual
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Author(s)Luigi Zoja
PublisherDaimon Verlag
ISBN / ASIN3856305955
ISBN-139783856305956
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Sales Rank1,139,796
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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 culture's 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 our times: consumerism.
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