Alfonso Matas
Biographic Data
| ID | 8753247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfonso Matas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfonso |
| FAMILY NAME | Matas |
| SIGNATURE | MATAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illumina (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion, Place, and Identity at the Intersection of Cultural Bricolage
This dissertation is an exploration of the Santo Daime Church in Miami, focusing on the challenges of balancing institutional stability with continual growth and innovation. Santo Daime-whose central ritual entails the consumption of the mind-altering ayahuasca brew-is a new religious movement that amalgamates indigenous Amazonian, Afro-Brazilian, and popular Catholic traditions. Between June 2016 and December 2018, I employed participant observa…
Ritual Performance of the Santo Daime Church in Miami
A syncretic religion born in the 1930s in the Amazonian jungle, Santo Daime today is an international flag-bearer in the evolving New Religion Movement (NRM) landscape. Shamanic power, nature veneration, universal love and the quest for a transcendental divine experience thanks to the psychoactive indigenous plant medicine ayahuasca define the Santo Daime allure for a new middle class disenchanted with capitalism. Church acculturation issues in M…
Religion, Place, and Identity at the Intersection of Cultural Bricolage
This dissertation is an exploration of the Santo Daime Church in Miami, focusing on the challenges of balancing institutional stability with continual growth and innovation. Santo Daime-whose central ritual entails the consumption of the mind-altering ayahuasca brew-is a new religious movement that amalgamates indigenous Amazonian, Afro-Brazilian, and popular Catholic traditions. Between June 2016 and December 2018, I employed participant observa…
Ritual Performance of the Santo Daime Church in Miami
A syncretic religion born in the 1930s in the Amazonian jungle, Santo Daime today is an international flag-bearer in the evolving New Religion Movement (NRM) landscape. Shamanic power, nature veneration, universal love and the quest for a transcendental divine experience thanks to the psychoactive indigenous plant medicine ayahuasca define the Santo Daime allure for a new middle class disenchanted with capitalism. Church acculturation issues in M…
Ritual Performance of the Santo Daime Church in Miami
A syncretic religion born in the 1930s in the Amazonian jungle, Santo Daime today is an international flag-bearer in the evolving New Religion Movement (NRM) landscape. Shamanic power, nature veneration, universal love and the quest for a transcendental divine experience thanks to the psychoactive indigenous plant medicine ayahuasca define the Santo Daime allure for a new middle class disenchanted with capitalism. Church acculturation issues in M…
Religion, Place, and Identity at the Intersection of Cultural Bricolage
This dissertation is an exploration of the Santo Daime Church in Miami, focusing on the challenges of balancing institutional stability with continual growth and innovation. Santo Daime-whose central ritual entails the consumption of the mind-altering ayahuasca brew-is a new religious movement that amalgamates indigenous Amazonian, Afro-Brazilian, and popular Catholic traditions. Between June 2016 and December 2018, I employed participant observa…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Miami (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acculturation (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work)