Ayahuasca, ritual and religion in Brazil
By: Edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Edward MacRae.
Contributors: Labate, Beatriz Caiuby.; Macrae, Edward John Baptista das Neves.
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781845536794
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Religion; Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Rites and ceremonies; Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Drug use; Ayahuasca ceremony -- Brazil; Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience -- Brazil; Brazil -- Social life and customs; Brazil -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The use of Ayahuasca among rubber tappers of the Alto Juru / Mariana C. Pantoja and Osmildo da Silva Conceio; title: The rituals of Santo Daime : systems of symbolic constructions / Arneide Cemin; title: Santo Daime in the context of the new religious consciousness / Luiz Eduardo Soares; title: The Barquinha : symbolic space of a cosmology in the making / Wladimyr Sena Arajo; title: Healing in the Barquinha religion / Christian Frenopoulo; title: Religious matrices of the Unino do Vegetal / Sandra Goulart; title: In the light of Hoasca : an approach to the religious experience of participants of the Unino do Vegetal / Sergio Brissac; title: Ayahuasca : the consciousness of expansion / Domingos Bernardo Gialluisi da Silva; title: The development of Brazilian public policies on the religious use of Ayahuasca / Edward MacRae; title: The treatment and handling of substance dependence with Ayahuasca : reflections on current and future research / Beatriz Labate, Rafael Guimares dos Santos, Brian Anderson, Marcelo Mercante, and Paulo Cesar Ribeiro Barbosa.