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...De Quincey’s notorious nineteenth century book, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, is also considered the first autobiographical account of drug addiction. It influenced not just generations of narcoticized writers but even medical opinion on the effects of opium for decades after its publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was...

...phrases, such as “savages”, “primitives” and “lower races” are frequent and disturbing, not least because social scientific methodologies for studying religions, and indeed social phenomena more generally, are supposed to be based on empathy and understanding rather than prejudice. There are two main elements to be considered: on the one hand, the race...