Encantarias brasileiras. A emergência de religiosidades híbridas Afro-Ameríndias: o caso do mestre Irineu Serra – DAIME

Abstract

This article deals with the emergence of hybrid religiosity of Afro- Amerindian matrices centered on the ritualistic use of ayahuasca from  the study of the Daime case, a religion whose lineage was founded by Maranhão Raimundo Irineu Serra in Rio Branco, Acre during the so-called cycle of Eraser. It is the study of hybrid religiosities, fruits of diasporic identity processes in transnational spaces of the Amazonian frontiers, marked by traditions of the enchanted ones, in a universe where there is the absence of the separation between the world and the sacred, in which shamanism and pajelance Amerindian-cabocla with African matrices forming new religiosities, although also strongly influenced by Christian hegemonic discourse