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Christ returns from the jungle : ayahuasca religion as mystical healing / Marc G. Blainey.

Author/creator Blainey, Marc Gordon author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Descriptionxxviii, 534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology. ^A236542
Contents Framing and tackling the question : why Santo Daime in Europe? -- From Amazonia with love -- Back to the Old World -- Santo Daime "works" -- The mystical technology of Santo Daime rituals -- Fardados' existential values -- Applying anthropology to public debates about ayahuasca.
Abstract "An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage. Explores the attraction of unconventional religions in the age of secularization"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Blainey, Marc Gordon. Christ returns from the jungle Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] 9781438483153
LCCN 2020058286
ISBN9781438483139
ISBN1438483139 hardcover
ISBN9781438483146 paperback
ISBN1438483147 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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