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Edward Macrae

3 papers in the library · 90 citations · publishing 2008-2016

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Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil

April 8, 2016 Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edward Macrae 78 citations

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...

Religious Uses of Licit and Illicit Psychoactive Substances in a Branch of the Santo Daime Religion

Fieldwork in Religion November 27, 2008 Edward Macrae 11 citations

The article deals with the different effects of tolerant and prohibitionist policies associated with psychoactive substance use in Brazil. Whereas the licit use of ayahuasca has been successfully incorporated into mainstream Brazilian society, the ritual use of cannabis by one of the Santo Daime religious groups has never been fully accepted and remains a constant source of problems for the...

Editorial

Fieldwork in Religion November 27, 2008 Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edward Macrae 1 citation

This issue of Fieldwork in Religion is comprised of original and translated articles about a collection of related Brazilian religions that all utilize the consciousness changing substance named ayahuasca.The ayahuasca religions have been the object of systematic research in Brazil at least since 1983 when Clodomir Monteiro da Silva presented his MA dissertation on the role played by the Santo...