ISSN 1743-0615
12 papers in the library · 37 citations · publishing 2008-2022
Fieldwork in Religion May 19, 2022 Norman Simms
Mirsky, Yehudah. 2021. Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865–1904. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press. xix + 392 pp. ISBN: 978-1618119551. US$30.99 (pbk).
Fieldwork in Religion May 19, 2022 Anna Lutkajtis
Luke, David and Rory Spowers, eds. 2021. DMT Entity Encounters: Dialogues on the Spirit Molecule. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press. xiv + 370 pp. ISBN: 978-1-64411-233-5 (pbk)
Fieldwork in Religion March 31, 2020 Anna Lutkajtis 20 citations
Mushrooms containing psilocybin have been used in Indigenous healing ceremonies in Mesoamerica since at least the sixteenth century. However, the sacramental use of mushrooms was only discovered by Westerners in the early to mid-twentieth century. Most notably, the meeting between amateur mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson and Mazatec curandera María Sabina in 1955 resulted in the widespread...
Fieldwork in Religion October 15, 2018 Giselle Bader
This article examines Werner Herzog's 1978 diary Of Walking in Ice (Vom Gehen im Eis) as fundamental in establishing his eccentric public persona as an artist. His decision to walk from Munich to Paris in an effort to save Lotte Eisner's life is read as a shamanic performance. Herzog records this performance as an incantation played out across the magical backdrop of the Germanic forest, its...
Fieldwork in Religion March 20, 2015 Glenys Eddy
The practice of vipassana meditation emphasizes the role of meditative experience in coming to understand the Buddhist worldview and in effecting personal transformation. Data obtained from fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2005 at the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre (BMIMC) in Medlow Bath, NSW Australia, illustrate the process by which aspects of doctrine come to be accepted...
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...
Fieldwork in Religion November 27, 2008 Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja, Osmildo Silva Da Conceição 1 citation
The article is the fruit of co-authorship between an anthropologist with long research experience in the area of the Extractivist Reserve of the Alto Juruá, in the far west of the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon, and a rubber tapper who was first introduced to ayahuasca in the context of a rubber camp. His initiation has elements of non-indigenous and indigenous culture and results in a...
Fieldwork in Religion November 27, 2008 Christian Frenopoulo 1 citation
The article focuses on the healing service offered by Barquinha churches. The Barquinha religion is an Amazonian form of Christianity, with syncretic elements. The article surveys three recurrent methodological and theoretical approaches found in anthropological works on healing in the Barquinha religion, to which the author contributes with his own ethnographic research and analysis. On the...
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...
Fieldwork in Religion November 27, 2008 Beatriz Caiuby Labate
The purpose of this text is to provide an overview of Brazilian literature on the principal ayahuasca religions of Brazil: Santo Daime, the Barquinha and the União do Vegetal. To this end, the article offers the most exhaustive survey available of the university theses that have been produced on the subject, published or not; it also deals with various research projects in progress and a few...
Fieldwork in Religion November 27, 2008 Sérgio Brissac
This article deals with the symbolic experiences of urban participants of the União do Vegetal (UDV), in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Through the analysis of participant speech, it seeks to identify the discursive axes of disciples of the UDV. Subjects’ experiences under the effects of the tea are strongly liminal, and frequently act as mediators through which the subject articulates...
Fieldwork in Religion April 12, 2008 Robin M. Wright 3 citations
This article reviews the forthcoming issue of FIR containing an important collection of articles on the origins and developments of religious movements and, later, research movements focused on a powerful psychoactive beverage consisting of the mixture of certain vines (ayahuasca) and leaves (chacrona) found mainly in Western Amazonia. The religious interpretations resulting from the ritual...