Santo Daime

A New World Religion

Bibliographic Data

ID19906272
AuthorsAndrew Dawson (0000-0003-3285-3537, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSanto Daime (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781472552617
OpenAlexW4240591123
ISBN9781472552617
LanguageEN
Citations received17

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

Commoditization · Consumption (sociology) · Discipline · Ethnology · Globalization · Homeland · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Religious identity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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