The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is a classic search for the origins of religion, employing psychology and anthropology to explain elements of Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, Christian, shamanic and Native American religion.
The Ghost Dance offers a fascinating exploration of the history and origins of religious belief from earliest times to the present day. The Ghost Dance takes its place beside other great studies of religion, such as those by Sigmund Freud, Geza Roheim or Mircea Eliade.
WESTON LA BARRE
Weston La...
THE GHOST DANCE
The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is a classic search for the origins of religion, employing...
For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre s fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes using "Lophophora williamsii," the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward.Continuing his research from the 1930s through the 1980s, Weston La Barre reviews topics such as the Timothy Leary-Richard Alpert experiments with peyote and other psychotropic substances, the Carlos Castaneda phenomenon, the progress of the Native American Church toward...
For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre s fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied ...
