Review: Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing, by Marc G. Blainey
Kelly E. Hayes
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions February 1, 2023 DOI: 10.1525/nr.2023.26.3.125 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Ayahuasca Mysticism |
| Keywords | Jungle Trance Theology Traditional medicine Anthropology Archaeology |
| Key findings | Crockford's participant-observer strategy provides an intimate interpretive dimension to the study of contemporary New Age and alternative spiritual movements. |
Abstract
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 surprisingly, provides an added interpretive dimension not typically found in the social science literature on contemporary New Age and alternative spiritual movements.
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