International Journal of Latin American Religions
November 7, 2026
Rodrigo de Azeredo Grünewald
Abstract This article examines jurema in Northeastern Brazil through the lenses of religiosity, historicity, and polysemy. Rather than treating it merely as a plant or psychoactive beverage, the article approaches jurema as a point of articulation among vegetal materiality, mystical experience, indigeneity, memory, and historical transformation. Because the term can refer simultaneously to a...
International Journal of Latin American Religions
December 1, 2022
Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez, Victor E. C. Ortuño, Mari Rose Reimondo Silva et al.
6 citations
The impact of spirituality on health, personality and anxiety is a common topic of research in the psychology of religion. For the case of Buddhism, the relation between health and meditation has been extensively studied, while research of Buddhism and personality is not a common topic in the field. The current article aims to analyze whether Tibetan Buddhism, as a particular religious...
International Journal of Latin American Religions
December 1, 2022
Maurício S. Neubern
2 citations
This article aims to propose and understanding of the Sacred experience in relation to Chico Xavier, an important Brazilian Spiritist medium from the twentieth century. From a theoretical methodology based on semiotics and ethnopsychology, the article initially begins with a discussion on the notion of Sacred and the changes that occurred in Spiritism since its origins in France, linked to...
International Journal of Latin American Religions
December 1, 2022
Cecilia Guimarães Bastos
2 citations
The practices of yoga and meditation are discussed based on the observation of a group of Vedanta students and yoga practitioners. This article offers a critical reflection of the individualism inherent to the understanding of spirituality. In contrast to most studies that differentiate spirituality from religion, this research confirms that interlocutors tend to submit to religious dogmas and...
International Journal of Latin American Religions
May 19, 2017
B. Schmidt
26 citations
According to the latest national census, 64.6% of Brazilians identified themselves as Roman Catholic. However, the census has little or nothing to do with actual practice or belief. Professing to be a Christian (within any confessional specification) is still part of being Brazilian. But the self-identification does not take into account that religiosity is expressed in very diverse ways nor...