Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...A new and exotic arrival to entangled, Western late-modernity, Santo Daime is doubly pathologized. First, and coupled with its unfamiliar ritual regime and hybrid religious world view, the sacramental status of ayahuasca (with its active...
Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Introduction
Having some housekeeping chores to complete between bouts of fieldwork, I visited São Paulo city centre in the company of a daimista friend, Bernado. Prior to making our way to the shops, we dropped by the Catholic Cathedral...
Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Introduction
The opening section of what follows details the birth of Santo Daime at the hands of its official founder Raimundo Irineu Serra (1892–1971), known to his followers (daimistas) as ‘Master Irineu’. In addition to reproducing some...
Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Three exchanges
In conversation about reincarnation and ‘incorporation’ (a daimista term for spirit mediumship) with Ricardo, he reminded me that Master Irineu and Padrinho Sebastião were the respective reincarnations of Jesus and John...
Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Introduction
Focusing upon its orientation to the world at large, the contemporary character of Santo Daime is here explored through a sustained engagement with the urban middle-class constituency which now forms the overwhelming majority...
Andrew Dawson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Editor of the journal Fieldwork in Religion. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The stocky young man was no more than 25 years old, though his physical appearance and bodily demeanour spoke of an age somewhat greater. Distorted by an animalistic grimace, the young man’s face had glassy eyes beset with a remote, almost...
Todd Hartch is Professor at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond KT, United States Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...During a prayer service in Bogotá in 2004, a student from one of Colombia’s most prestigious universities entered into a trance-like state, “closing her eyes, swaying back and forth with her arms crossed over her chest, and, depending...
Lloyd Barba is Assistant Professor of Religion at Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The history of Latinx Christianities in North America is one of global and hemispheric crossings. The encounters in the Americas between European colonizers and Indigenous inhabitants over five hundred years ago should prompt us to consider...
Vincent J. Miller is Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton, USA. His work has appeared in Horizons, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium. In 1996 he received the Outstanding Graduate Student Essay Award of the College Theology Society. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture
Bloomsbury Academic, 2003
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...Michel de certeau and pierre bourdieu provide a way to take the dispersed activity of consumers seriously as significant and potent political action. Our topic demands more. A full evaluation of the impact of consumer culture upon religious...
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