Santo Daime: Teoecologia e adaptação aos tempos modernos

Abstract

Resumo Este artigo resume os principais aspectos da pesquisa: "Santo Daime: Teoecologia e Adaptação aos tempos modernos", dissertação de mestrado defendida em 2005 pelo PPG-PS/UERJ. O Santo Daime é uma religião que utiliza ritualmente um chá com propriedades psicoativas, acompanhado do canto de hinos que, segundo seus seguidores, tem poder de cura e ensinamentos.Como metodologia, foram realizadas entrevistas semi-dirigidas, bem como uma análise do conteúdo dos hinos mais cantados, a fim de conhecer os aspectos que fazem parte da construção social desta religião na contemporaneidade. Com base nas teorias das Representações Sociais e da Memória Social, procurou-se compreender que tipos de relações psicossociais são construídas dentro da experiência religiosa daimista e também analisar como se deu a interação entre os daimistas amazônicos e os "forasteiros" das grandes cidades que conheceram a doutrina durante as décadas de 70-80 do século passado.

Expanding information behaviour boundaries: A study with religious leaders

“…Daime hymns also present fragments of collective memory and social representations of the doctrine and can be considered quite complex psychosocial phenomena. (Araújo and Vieiralves-Castro, 2009: 527)Also characterizing the Santo Daime doctrine is the fact that it is a social practice that aims to elevate perceptual, creative, cognitive and discernment capacity, which helps its practitioners to assume social, individual and collective responsibilities (Vieiralves-Castro, 2009).…”

“…Daime hymns also present fragments of collective memory and social representations of the doctrine and can be considered quite complex psychosocial phenomena. (Araújo and Vieiralves-Castro, 2009: 527)…”

“…According to Araújo and Vieiralves-Castro (2009), Santo Daime is a new Christian religious movement that places great value on altered states of consciousness, which Daimists usually call mirações – a way of seeking spiritual enlightenment through the ingestion of a tea known as Daime or ayahuasca, among other denominations, and the repetitive singing of hymns, which are dictated directly from the ‘Astral World’ and contain teachings, healing power and revelations. As revealed by the founder of the doctrine, Irineu Serra, Mestre Irineu, tea has great power and can, in some cases, cause profound changes in people about themselves and the world, bringing new perspectives and psychosocial conceptions.…”

“…Religious organizations should seek ways to obtain, organize, store, disseminate and use information according to their needs and objectives, respecting the diversity and plurality of their members. This situation can be witnessed in the Santo Daime doctrine, a Christian and ecumenical religious practice that uses, in its rituals, the ingestion of Santo Daime in the religious context, also known as ayahuasca, an entheogenic sacrament that induces a spiritual feeling of self-knowledge, constituting a prophylactic and therapeutic agent at the service of the elevation of human consciousness (Araújo and Vieiralves-Castro, 2009). 1…”