Right Relation with Tobacco: Decommercialization and Reverence.
The much-maligned tobacco plant has been exploited to kill more people than any other plant, with yearly tobacco deaths exceeding eight million globally. Yet, for Indigenous peoples with many millennia of relationship with tobacco, the herb is regarded as a sacrament, a reminder of humility, a sourc...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 14 - 44 |
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