Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
August 1, 2024
Brad Stoddard
1 citation
ABSTRACT: Motivated by multiple factors collectively related to what is often termed the Psychedelic Renaissance, people increasingly consume psychedelics for recreational, medicinal, psychotherapeutic, and even spiritual or religious reasons. In the broader psychedelic ecosystem, ayahuasca (a psychoactive "tea" made from plants indigenous to the Amazon jungle) is becoming one of the more...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
August 1, 2023
Tarryl Janik
Book Review| August 01 2023 Review: Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, by G. William Barnard Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition. By G. William Barnard. Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pages. $140.00 hardcover; $35.00 softcover; ebook available. Tarryl Janik Tarryl Janik University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Search for other works...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
May 1, 2023
Benjamin D. Crace
Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Eros in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), by Massimo Introvigne Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Eros in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA). By Massimo Introvigne. Mimesis International, 2022. 144 pages. $19.99 softcover. Benjamin D. Crace Benjamin D. Crace Independent Scholar...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
May 1, 2023
Mihaela Mudure
The aim of this collection of essays is twofold: introducing esotericism to a general Romanian readership and presenting some personalities in Romanian esotericism to the general public worldwide.The first purpose is fully justified by the specific history of Romanian culture discussed.From 1938 until 1989, Romania experienced a series of dictatorial regimes of right, far right, or leftist...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
February 1, 2023
Kelly E. Hayes
lives, and the anthropologist's interpretive context in which she sets these intersecting life stories.While being part of the story does present pitfalls, and while her analysis sometimes departs from the actual points her subjects are trying to make, Crockford is able to convince the reader that her participant-observer strategy works.There is an intimacy to her research that, not...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
May 1, 2022
Tarryl Janik
Book Review| May 01 2022 Review: Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains, by Kathleen Bolling Lowrey Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains. By Kathleen Bolling Lowrey. University Press of Colorado, 2020. 238 pages. $77.00 hardcover; $27.95 softcover; ebook available. Tarryl Janik Tarryl Janik University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
May 1, 2022
Sarah Dees
The Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma is a sovereign Indigenous nation with historic ties to what is now the Southern Plains region of the United States. Kiowas have a distinct history, language, culture, and religion. The nineteenth century brought significant changes to practitioners of Kiowa religious traditions. In October of 1867, members of the Kiowa, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Southern...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
February 1, 2020
Christopher Partridge
119 citations
This article discusses the relationship between inner space (the mind/consciousness) and perceptions of outer space (the extraterrestrial) in Western psychedelic cultures. In particular, it analyses the writings and lectures of Terence McKenna, the most influential psychedelic thinker since the 1960s. Assimilating a broad range of ideas taken from esotericism, shamanism, and science fiction,...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
February 1, 2020
K. Hayes
ABSTRACT:The Brazilian religion known as the Valley of the Dawn is an international new religious movement known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments. Headquartered outside of Brasília, the Valley of the Dawn was founded in the 1960s by Neiva Chaves Zelaya (1925–85) a clairvoyant medium affectionately referred to as Aunt Neiva. This...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
July 24, 2018
Dorothea Kahena Viale
Book Review| August 01 2018 Review: Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt by Hager El Hadidi Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt. By Hager El Hadidi. dOxford University Press, 2016. $34.95 cloth. Dorothea Kahena Viale Dorothea Kahena Viale Cal Poly Pomona Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2018)...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
February 1, 2018
Erik Davis
4 citations
In 1964, Timothy Leary and a few colleagues published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual for “tripping” explicitly based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the core of the Tibetan materials lies the concept of the bardo, the “in between” realm of the afterlife. While acknowledging the problematic nature of Leary’s radical appropriation, this essay argues that his application of these...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
August 1, 2015
Natasha L. Mikles, Joseph P. Laycock
Since the 1970s, tulpas have been a feature of Western paranormal lore. In contemporary paranormal discourse, a tulpa is a being that begins in the imagination but acquires a tangible reality and sentience. Tulpas are created either through a deliberate act of individual will or unintentionally from the thoughts of numerous people. The tulpa was first described by Alexandra David-Néel...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
May 1, 2012
Andrew Dawson
With specific reference to the spread of non-traditional forms of spirit possession, this article explores the growing influence of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Umbanda upon the Brazilian new religion of Santo Daime. The following material opens by introducing Santo Daime and plotting the historical trajectory of spirit possession from the movement's beginnings in 1930s' Brazil, to its spread...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
April 13, 2012
Esther Jean Langdon, Isabel Santana de Rose
17 citations
This paper is a reflection on the ritual incorporation of ayahuasca, an Amazonian psychoactive ritual substance, by members of a Guarani Indian village on the Atlantic coast of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Their shamanic leaders have adapted the use of this beverage into their ritual practices and recognize it as part of their culture and tradition. This process of appropriation is a...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
July 14, 2011
S. J. Crasnow
Book Review| August 01 2011 Review: The Devil's Children: From Spirit Possession to Witchcraft: New Allegations that Affect Children, by Jean La Fontaine The Devil's Children: From Spirit Possession to Witchcraft: New Allegations that Affect Children. Edited by Jean La Fontaine. Ashgate, 2009. 204 pages. $99.95 cloth. Sonia Crasnow Sonia Crasnow University of California, Riverside Search for...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
May 1, 2011
Scott Lowe
Science—in the forms of Western theoretical science, empirical research, and revised Vedic teachings—has played at least three different roles over the last fifty years in the evolving public and internal teachings of the Transcendental Meditation Organization (TMO) of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The first phase, starting in 1957, emphasized the power of Indian spiritual teachings to transform the...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
February 1, 2011
Devin R. Lander
14 citations
This paper describes a radical and short-lived spiritual movement that emerged in New York State in the 1960s. With Dr. Timothy Leary as the figurehead, two of these psychedelic religions rose to brief cultural prominence in period of 1963–1968 when Leary and his communal group made their home in the small village of Millbrook, New York. Due to negative media attention and a subsequent law...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
January 8, 2010
Henrik Bogdan
3 citations
Research Article| February 01 2010 New Perspectives on Western Esotericism Henrik Bogdan Henrik Bogdan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2010) 13 (3): 97–105. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2010.13.3.97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
January 8, 2010
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Book Review| February 01 2010 Review: Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation, by Henrik Bogdan Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation. By Henrik Bogdan. State University of New York Press, 2007. xii + 235 pages. $66.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
April 1, 1998
T. Miller
19 citations
Book Review| April 01 1998 Entheogens and the Future of Religion Entheogens and the Future of Religion. Edited by Robert Forte. Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997. 183 pages. $15.00 paper. Timothy Miller Timothy Miller University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1998) 1 (2): 315–316. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1998.1.2.315 Views...