In the Light of Hoasca: An Approach to the Religious Experience of Participants of the União Do Vegetal
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 t...
| Published in: | Fieldwork in religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox
[2006]
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| In: |
Fieldwork in religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Religious Experience
B hoasca B Ayahuasca B burracheira B Ritual B José Gabriel da Costa B União do Vegetal B Amazon |
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| Summary: | 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 elements of his life with those of the UDV worldview, experiencing them as a single reality. This experience is labeled by the author as encompassment in the force of the burracheira (the UDV designation for the strange force' that accompanies ingestion of the tea). As elaborated by Brissac, this idea denotes both the subjective experience of being swept up' by the effects of ayahuasca, and the way in which the UDV as a symbolic system draws to itself elements of other religious practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-0623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/firn.v2i3.319 |