Tarryl Janik

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022-2025

Papers

Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church of Mother Earth v. The DEA: Religious Sincerity and Situational Adjustments in the Process of Defining a Church and a Plant

January 13, 2025 Tarryl Janik

A Florida-based religious group, Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church of Mother Earth Inc., incorporated Christian beliefs with the Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca, a Schedule I controlled substance, as its central sacrament. Members consumed ayahuasca to connect with the divine and treat various conditions. The church operated without DEA-approved religious exemption. The legal conflict between Soul Quest and the DEA illustrates how the church positioned itself legally and under DEA oversight to be recognized as a church entitled to use ayahuasca.

DOI: 10.70423/0001.08 Full text Ayahuasca Sincerity Soul Process computing +7

Review: Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains, by Kathleen Bolling Lowrey

Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions May 1, 2022 Tarryl Janik

A book review describes Kathleen Bolling Lowrey's work, which uses disability theory and feminist scholarship to reinterpret shamanism across the North and South American Great Plains. Lowrey applies Eva Feder Kittay's concept of 'dependency work' to frame vulnerability as a universal moral relation, illuminating indigenous revitalization movements and ethnogenesis. The book counters a prior emphasis on masculinity in shamanism studies by highlighting feminist allyship and long-term solidarity with community members in difficulty.

DOI: 10.1525/nr.2022.25.4.137 Shamanism Icon Citation Vulnerability computing +11