The Attraction Of Peyote: An Inquiry Into The Basic Conditions For The Diffusion Of The Peyote Religion In North America (stockholm Studies In Comparative Religion , No 33)

I. Peyote And The Peyote Religion. 1. The Peyote Herb And Its Properties. 2. History And Diffusion Of Peyote Religion. 3. Doctrine And Ritual -- Ii. The Peyote Religion: A Shoshoni Example. 1. Peyote Among The Wind River Shoshoni. 2. Peyote Symbolism. 3. A Shoshoni Ritual Meeting -- Iii. Why Peyote Spread: The Indian Testimony. 1. The General Persuasion. 2. The Origin Legend Of Peyote -- Iv. Why Peyote Spread: The Research Opinion. 1. Trends Of The Discussion. 2. The Peyote Religion As A Crisis Religion. 3. Peyote And The Situation Of Cultural Shock. 4. Peyote As A Means Of Personal Adjustment. 5. Peyote As A Medicine. 6. Peyote As An Expression Of Religious And Ritual Continuity: Peyote And The Mescal Bean Cult. Åke Hultkrantz. A Duplicate Copy Of This Title Was Part Of The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, But Was Not Retained. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 209-229) And Index. 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.