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Psychedelics, Harm Reduction, and Life's Big Questions: Making Sense of Spirituality and Religion After the Journey

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT The interplay between psychedelic use, mental health, and spiritual, religious, or ‘mystical’ experiences continues to be investigated through clinical research. While many studies focus on general mechanisms underlying these compounds, analysis of real‐life accounts from individuals is underrepresented.
Lisa L. Gezon, Kenton Bartlett
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El discurso desincretizador y womanista de Georgina Herrera: hacia una descolonización de la espiritualidad de la mujer negra cubana=Georgina Herrera’s Womanist and unsyncretic discourse: Toward a Spiritual Decolonization of the Afro-Cuban Woman

Cuestiones de Género: de la Igualdad y la Diferencia, 2017
Resumen El propósito de este artículo es usar la poesía de Georgina Herrera para deconstruir la tradición de la santería que considera la religión yoruba como una ramificación del catolicismo y no como una religión universal. Georgina Herrera refleja en
Ana Zapata-Calle
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Neutrality, Proselytism and Religious Minorities at the European Court of Human Rights and the US Supreme Court [PDF]

, 2009
The paper examines the way the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights have dealt with the discriminatory treatment of religious minorities in relation to proselytism, and the role played by the principle of neutrality in arguments ...
Hatzis, N.
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Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This article ethnographically explores how the land conflict between Indigenous protesters and agribusiness complexes in Brazil offers insights for critically reevaluating matters of property and belonging—namely, ethno‐racial critiques of who belongs where and what belongs to whom.
LaShandra Sullivan
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Santería e "salvezza". Un approccio olistico al benessere e alle relazioni interpersonali

EtnoAntropologia, 2014
Drawing from a series of interviews to a contemporary dancer in Havana, who was initiated few years ago in the Regla de Ocha, this essay focuses on the complex relations between religion and health, intending the latter as the result of an achieved ...
Alessandra Ciattini
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Beyond Coercion: Justice Kennedy\u27s Aversion to Animus [PDF]

, 2006
In evaluating the constitutionality of religious displays, Justice Kennedy adheres to the coercion test. A crèche on the courthouse steps is acceptable because it does not coerce anyone to support or participate in a religious exercise.
Goldberg, Steven
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Tattoo Artists as Religious Figures

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 675-694, September 2024.
Abstract If tattoos have a religious function, tattooists play a role in crafting a spiritual object. Hence, we explore the religious function of the tattooist and how tattooists deal with religion in their work. We used a “Lived Religion” approach that focuses on religious practices instead of religious organizations, because neither tattooists nor ...
Gustavo Morello SJ, Tiago Franco De Paula   +1 more
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Infrabanking: Mobilizing capital in communist Cuba

Economic Anthropology, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 59-70, January 2024.
Abstract In 2011, the Cuban government authorized banks to start offering loan credit to the country's growing number of small businesses for the first time since the beginning of the revolution. Yet in the following years, citizens have largely circumvented these services. This article draws on twenty months of fieldwork among market traders in Havana
Ståle Wig
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¡OH MÍO YEMAYÁ! DIFUSIÓN, MASIFICACIÓN Y TRANSNACIONALIZACIÓN DE LA SANTERÍA CUBANA EN BOLIVIA

Revista Brasileira do Caribe, 2017
As religiões afroamericanas estão tendo maior presença no mundo a partir de conexões entre pessoas, países e lugares. Algumas destas manifestações destacam diversas estruturas vinculadas, tais como o vudú haitiano, candomblé brasileiro, Shangó cult ...
Juan M. Saldívar
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Las pesadillas de shango: los "Asesinatos constanzo" de Matamoros en el cine

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012
El artículo examina dos películas inspiradas por los asesinatos cometidos por Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, los cuales tuvieron lugar en Matamoros y el Distrito Federal de México en los años 80, más notoriamente en 1989 cuando se sacrificó al estudiante ...
Robert Harland
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