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Santo Daime - A New World Religion (Hardcover, New)
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Santo Daime - A New World Religion (Hardcover, New)
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"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.
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