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World of Worldly Gods May 6, 2023 Kelzang T. Tashi
Abstract This chapter focuses on family and individual concerns and examines the ways in which people deal with threats to everyday life, health, and welfare posed by a range of supernatural entities. It demonstrates that it is not only the weak Buddhist presence but also the dearth of healthcare services in the village that have left the utility of Bon rituals unchallenged and ever relevant to...
World of Worldly Gods May 6, 2023 Kelzang T. Tashi
Abstract This chapter reflects on the relationship between Buddhism and Shamanic Bon, and Buddhism and Clerical Bon, and discusses religious syncretism in the context of the great and little traditions by relating the findings to the wider anthropological literature. It takes the relationship between great and little traditions as its starting point for the interplay of Buddhism and Bon...
World of Worldly Gods May 6, 2023 Kelzang T. Tashi
Abstract This chapter extends the ongoing relevance of Bon by considering the belief in the fluidity of five life elements and their centrality to Golengpas’ everyday lives. It offers ethnographic insights into the complex local cosmology/pantheon and people’s strong beliefs in a deep shamanic worldview. It looks at people’s beliefs about the idea of soul loss and the centrality of five life...
May 2, 2023 Guillermo Giucci, Sebastián Torterola
Ayahuasca, the main Amazonian entheogen, increases its presence within Brazilian society with the foundation of Santo Daime religion in the state of Acre in 1930. Along the following decades, turned into a syncretic religion, the pre-Columbian brew leaves the jungle and heads to the cities. The dissemination of ayahuasca throughout Brazil is an expression of entheogenic mobility, a phenomenon...
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion April 13, 2023 Robson Savoldi, Antônio Roazzi, Rita Clara de Oliveira Sales 6 citations
Mystical and even ego-dissolution experiences can be elicited from entheogens, like sacred potions of ayahuasca and jurema. Although composed of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and having met at a historical moment, ayahuasca and jurema have different rituals, symbolic references, and origins. This article aims to describe ayahuasca and jurema rituals, in psychometric measures of mysticism and...
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies April 3, 2023 A. Smith, Alexandra Macheski
This essay considers how Indigenous Amazonian aesthetics can sense and be sensed when incorporated into film. Drawing on Amazonian ontology, Shipibo aesthetics, and haptic film theory and focusing on the function of the multimodal Shipibo designs known as kené in Icaros: A Vision (2016, directed by Matteo Norzi and Leonor Caraballo), we propose that the full-length feature film format allows...
Politics, Religion & Ideology April 3, 2023 Stefano Bigliardi 2 citations
Santo Daime is a religious movement that originated in the nineteenth century in Brazil. It blends shamanic practices, Christianity, and other traditions. Daimistas drink ayahuasca, a mind-altering...
Философия и культура April 1, 2023 Chenyuan Jin
The article is devoted to the study of the history of theatrical therapy in the no-si ritual drama. It is shown that, in general, the ritual elements of the no-si drama can be used in modern drama therapy. In addition, dramatic therapy, which is implied by the author in this article, is somewhat different from the modern concept of psychodrama, since it covers large areas of the human psyche....
Journal of Religion & Film April 1, 2023 Rebecca Makas
Abstract This article explores the implicit theory of mysticism in Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent (Sp. El abrazo de la serpiente). While many theories of mysticism argue that true mystical experience is unmediated and, therefore, universal, Guerra makes a more provocative statement in the film. He depicts two Westerners’ attempts to have an entheogenic mystical experience in...
Nouvelle revue théologique March 22, 2023 Mirjam Mencej, É. Cs, Ünsal Yılmaz et al.
: Â ¸sıks , renowned for their adeptness at improvisational poetry, are viewed as the inheritors of certain shamanic functions within historical contexts. Originally, shamans assumed diverse roles encompassing poetry, medicine, and priesthood before social and religious transformations prompted a gradual shift of the poetic responsibilities, first to individuals termed ozan (bards) and later to...