List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Framing and Tackling the Question: Why Santo Daime in Europe?
1. Introduction
2. How the Outsider Can Understand Daimista Insiders
Part II: From Amazonia with Love
3. Tracing Origins
4. The Current State of Santo Daime Studies: Brazil and Beyond
5. Passage to "Heaven" of Mapiá
Part III: Back to the Old World
6. Santo Daime and the Re-Enchantment of Europe
7. National Profiles
Part IV: Santo Daime "Works"
8. Framework for Curing the Ego
9. Eclectic Symbolisms of Santo Daime Ideology
10. Being-in-the-Astral: An Auto-Ethnography of Ethnophenomenology
Part V: The Mystical Technology of Santo Daime Rituals
11. A Key to Solutions
12. Fardados' Conception of Santo Daime as a Mystical Path
Part VI: Fardados' Existential Values
13. Timeless Wisdom
14. The Aims of Santo Daime Perennialism
Part VII: Applying Anthropology to Public Debates about Ayahuasca
15. The Cosmopolitics of Entheogenic Healing
16. Closing Remarks: Toward Mutual Respect and Toleration
Appendices
Appendix I: Glossary of Portuguese Santo Daime Terms
Appendix II: Liturgical Calendar of Santo Daime
Appendix III: Master List of Sacred Plants (Europe-wide Sample)
Appendix IV: Master List of Great Spiritual Teachers (Belgian Sample)
Appendix V: Master List of Great Spiritual Teachers (Europe-wide Sample)
Appendix VI: Triad Test Results and Statistics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Marc G. Blainey is an adjunct faculty member in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy at Martin Luther University College in Waterloo, Ontario. He received his PhD in anthropology from Tulane University and is the coeditor (with Emiliano Gallaga) of Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm.