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Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing

Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing

Blainey, Marc G.

Paperback

Series: Suny Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1438483147
ISBN13: 9781438483146
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Jan 2 2022
Pages: 562
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.

After more than 450 years of European intrusions into South America's rainforest, small groups of people across Europe now gather discreetly to participate in Amazonian ceremonies their local governments consider a criminal act. As devotees of a new Brazil-based religion called Santo Daime, they claim that they contact God by way of ayahuasca, a potent psychoactive beverage first developed by native communities in pre-Columbian Amazonia. This bitter, brown liquid is a synergy of plants containing DMT, a mind-altering chemical classified as an illicit hallucinogen in most countries. By contrast, Santo Daime members (daimistas) revere ayahuasca as a sacrament, combining it with rituals and theologies borrowed from Christian mysticism, indigenous shamanism, Afro-Brazilian spiritualism, and Western esotericism.

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