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Zusatztext In this absorbing volume, Andrew Dawson takes us on a trip from the Amazonian origins of Santo Daime to international middle-class professional circles, where lawyers and doctors indulge in the psychotropic ritual consumption of ayahuasca. Drawing on both detailed empirical data and a wide range of theoretical perspectives, Dawson illuminates the complex and dynamic interrelationships between collective belonging and the individualisation and subjectivization of contemporary religiosity, explaining how the world-rejecting aestheticism of Santo Daime combines with the this-worldly concerns of an apolitical counterculture. Provocative and instructive, this is a book to be recommended to anyone interested in the ever-increasing varieties of religious experience. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religion at Lancaster University, UK. Klappentext Introduces the Brazilian new religion and treats it in relation to ongoing developments influencing the status, nature and future of religion in the modern world. Vorwort Introduces the Brazilian new religion and treats it in relation to ongoing developments influencing the status, nature and future of religion in the modern world. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction \ 1. Historical Origins and Contemporary Directions \ 2. The Daimista Ritual Repertoire: Disciplinary Regime and Dynamic Field of Force \ 3. New World - New Selves: Daimista Discourse as an Apolitics of Transformation \ 4. Ritual Reinvention: Shifting Profiles of Spirit-Oriented Practice \ 5. Santo Daime in Late-Modern Context \ Postscript \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index...
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Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion.
