2 papers in the library · publishing 2023
May 2, 2023 Guillermo Giucci, Sebastián Torterola
Ayahuasca, the main Amazonian entheogen, increases its presence within Brazilian society with the foundation of Santo Daime religion in the state of Acre in 1930. Along the following decades, turned into a syncretic religion, the pre-Columbian brew leaves the jungle and heads to the cities. The dissemination of ayahuasca throughout Brazil is an expression of entheogenic mobility, a phenomenon...
February 27, 2023 Juan Scuro, Ismael Apud, Sebastián Torterola
Ayahuasca appeared in Uruguay in the 1990s through different groups such as Santo Daime church and different neo-shamanic and holistic centers. Since then, different legal cases and public discussions arose, in a debate where drug policies and religious rights were involved. The current chapter describes and analyzes some cases that recently emerged in the public scenario. First, we will...