Morality As Practice: The Santo Daime, an Eco-Religious Movement in the Amazonian Rainforest (Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Name: Morality As Practice: The Santo Daime, an Eco-Religious Movement in the Amazonian Rainforest (Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Author: Titti Kristina Schmidt
ISBN: 9789155469399

Titti Kristina Schmidt

Language: English

Published by Uppsala Universitet, 2007

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Title: Morality As Practice: The Santo Daime, an Eco-Religious Movement in the Amazonian Rainforest (Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Author: Titti Kristina Schmidt
Publisher: Uppsala Universitet
Publication year: 2007
Condition: Good
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9155469396
ISBN 13: 9789155469399

This study deals with Santo Daime, a religious and environmental movement in the Brazilian Amazon. It is based on 15 months of anthropological fieldwork in the foundational centre of the Santo Daime movement, Cu do Mapi, Heaven of Mapi, located deep inside the Brazilian State of Amazonas. In Cu do Mapi most followers of the movement are Brazilian peasants and workers collectively known as caboclos. Progressively the movement has also attracted urban middle-class followers, both Brazilians and foreigners. The main reason for people coming to Cu do Mapi to join the movement is the daime, a psychoactive brew (generally known as ayahuasca) used by the members during their rituals. The members claim that the daime is able to cure various kinds of diseases, including fatal diseases like AIDS and cancer. They also claim that it enhances the members' desire to protect nature. During the last twenty years, the movement has been expanding significantly and new Santo Daime centres have been set up in Latin America as well as in Europe, the United States and Japan. A concomitant of this process of globalisation is a steadily intensifying focus on environmental issues. The establishment of a National Park around Cu do Mapi has facilitated the active engagement by the members in a variety of ecological projects. Besides describing and analysing the growth of the Santo Daime movement in accordance to theories concerned with the growth of new social and religious movements in Latin America, the movement is also described and analysed in terms of moral practice. For members of the movement their moral practice is dictated by the daime (and the spirit residing within this psychoactive brew), which is seen as the sole agent of the contemporary expansion, an interpretation which implicitly rejects more conventional theories concerned with the growth of new social and religious movements. In order to understand and do justice to the specific Santo Daime rationale, i.e

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