Christ returns from the jungle : ayahuasca religion as mystical therapy /

"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. Explores the attraction of unconventional religions in the age of secularization"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blainey, Marc Gordon (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252645
Table of Contents:
  • Framing and tackling the question : why Santo Daime in Europe?
  • From Amazonia with love
  • Back to the Old World
  • Santo Daime "works"
  • The mystical technology of Santo Daime rituals
  • Fardados' existential values
  • Applying anthropology to public debates about ayahuasca.