"Santo Daime: A New World Religion" deals with a young, exotic and controversial religious movement. Emerging in the Brazilian Amazon in the 1930s, Santo Daime has since spread to many of the world's major cities. Santo Daime is a mixture of indigenous, popular Catholic, Afro-Brazilian, esoteric, Spiritist, and new age beliefs and activities. Ritual practice is centred on the consumption of a psychotropic beverage called 'Daime' which members believe enhances their interaction with the supernatural world. Because Daime is treated as an illegal narcotic in many parts of the world, outside of its Brazilian homeland most Santo Daime rituals are practised clandestinely. This book unites extensive fieldwork experience with an established theoretical background and makes a significant contribution to understanding the contemporary interface of religion and late-modern society. Individualization and religious subjectivism, pluralization and religious hybridism, transformation and detraditionalization, globalization and religious identity, and commoditization and religious consumption are among the many issues engaged by this book. "Santo Daime: A New World Religion" is an accessible and multi-disciplinary book suitable for undergraduate students and researchers working in Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Latin American Studies.

Shawn wrote this book based upon his life experiences as a struggling business owner trying to remain spiritually grounded in 2013. His personal relations with an angel appearing as his ex-girlfriend had a profound impact on his life. He felt driven to share this unique story with the world. He lives eight months out of the year in Homer Glen, Illinois. The extended winter months, he lives at different locations in Hawaii. His personal life is always an adventure. He enjoys spending time with the angels, while doing his best to stay on a clairvoyant path. Dream and reality merge, and "Dreamality" forms while experiencing God's pace in his life.