“Religious Behavior in Animals and Man: Drug-Induced Effects”, 1977-06 (; similar):
This paper attempts to develop an experimental analysis of drug-induced religious behavior.
The first part discusses drugs and religious behavior in man and includes sections on anthropological, contemporary, and experimental perspectives.
The second part reviews analogous natural and drug-induced animal behaviors which are seen to be structurally similar to human religious activities.
The functional similarities are examined in the third section which analyzes religion in terms of operant behavior concepts and findings.
It is concluded that the behavioral, albeit not necessarily the experiential, aspects of drug-induced religious behavior can be studied in the animal model.