%0 Book %A Dawson, Andrew %I Ashgate %D 2007 %C Aldershot u.a. %G English %B Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies %@ 9780754654339 %@ 0754654338 %T New era - new religions: religious transformation in contemporary Brazil %U http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/519486692.pdf %X Mapping the religious landscape. Colonial beginnings ; Emerging pluralization ; Further pluralization ; Established diversity -- Neo-esoteric religiosity. Contemporary neo-esotericism ; Temple of Good Will ; Valley of the Dawn ; Gnostic Church of Brazil -- Ayahuasca religions of Brazil. Indigenous and Mestiço origins ; Ayahuasca religion in Brazil ; Expansion and diversification ; Conclusion -- New era discourse. Course in new Gnosis ; Architectonic motifs of new era discourse ; The diffusion of new era discourse -- New era religiosity in late-modern perspective. A broadened religious spectrum ; An enhanced capacity to choose ; Social transformation ; The meeting of the What and the How