Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil

This edited volume brings together Brazilian and international scholars to examine the history, ritual, cosmology, and social context of three Brazilian ayahuasca religions: Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União do Vegetal. Chapters explore the use of ayahuasca among rubber tappers in the Alto Juruá, the symbolic systems of Santo Daime rituals, the cosmology of Barquinha, the religious matrices of União do Vegetal, and the religious experiences of its participants. The collection also addresses the development of Brazilian public policies on the religious use of ayahuasca and reviews current and future research on treating substance dependence with ayahuasca.

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Foreword by Professor Andrew Dawson, Lancaster University Beatriz Labate, Edward MacRae and Sandra Goulart (Casper Libero College, Brazil) - Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions in perspective 1. Mariana C. Pantoja (Federal University of Acre, Brazil) and Osmildo da Silva Conceicao (Kuntanawa tribal leader) - The use of ayahuasca among rubber tappers of the Alto Jurua 2. Arneide Cemin (Federal University of Rondonia, Brazil) - The rituals of Santo Daime: systems of symbolic constructions 3. Luiz Eduardo Soares (State University of Rio de Janeiro) - Santo Daime in the Context of the New Religious Consciousness 4. Wladimyr Sena Araujo (Uniao Educacional do Norte, Brazil) - The BarquinhaA: symbolic space of a cosmology in the making 5. Christian Frenopoulo (Anthropology PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh) - Healing in the Barquinha religion 6. Sandra Goulart - Religious matrices of the Uniao do Vegetal 7. Sergio Brissac (Brazilian Federal Prosecution Office) - In the light of Hoasca: an approach to the religious experience of participants of the Uniao do Vegetal 8. Domingos Bernardo Gialluisi da Silva Sa (Brazilian lawyer and member of the national anti-drug board, CONAD)- Ayahuasca: the consciousness of expansion 9. Edward MacRae - The development of Brazilian public policies on the religious use of Ayahuasca 10 .Beatriz Labate, Rafael Guimaraes dos Santos (PhD Candidate in Pharmacology, UAB, Barcelona) , Brian Anderson (MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine), Marcelo Mercante (Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies, Brazil) and Paulo Cesar Ribeiro Barbosa (Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil) - The Treatment and Handling of Substance Dependence with Ayahuasca: Reflections on Current and Future Research