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Religion, drug, or cult?ayahuasca's legal path in Brazil, the United States, and France /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Religion, drug, or cult?by Henrique Fernandes Antunes.
Reminder of title:	ayahuasca's legal path in Brazil, the United States, and France /
Author:	Antunes, Henrique Fernandes.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xi, 196 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	AyahuascaLaw and legislationBrazil.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04368-9
ISBN:	9783032043689$q(electronic bk.)

Religion, drug, or cult?ayahuasca's legal path in Brazil, the United States, and France /
Antunes, Henrique Fernandes.

Religion, drug, or cult?ayahuasca's legal path in Brazil, the United States, and France /[electronic resource] :by Henrique Fernandes Antunes. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xi, 196 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Law and religion in a global context,v. 52946-594X ;. - Law and religion in a global context ;v.1..

1 Introduction -- 2 The Road From Drug to Religion and Culture: The Regulation of the Religious Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil -- 3 Who's Heritage is it? The patrimonialization of the religious use of ayahuasca in Brazil -- 4 On rights and risks: the legal victories of the União do Vegetal and Santo Daime in the United States -- 5 Ayahuasca's path in the United States: The RFRA and the Sincere Exercise of Religion -- 6 On Drugs and Cults: The ayahuasca ban in France -- 7 Conclusion.

This book explores the emergence of the religious use of ayahuasca as a subject of public interest and state intervention in Brazil, the United States, and France. In Brazil, since the 1980s, ayahuasca use has been permitted by the National Council on Drug Policies exclusively for religious purposes. In the late 2000s, public policies shifted from drug control to cultural heritage, following demands by groups from Acre for recognition of their practices as intangible heritage. In the United States, two Brazilian religions - União do Vegetal (UDV) and Santo Daime - as well as two non-Christian churches - the Church of the Eagle and the Condor and the Church of the Celestial Heart - secured the legal right to use ayahuasca. Through legal battles and settlements, they obtained exemptions from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). In France, ayahuasca was banned in 2005, just three months after a Santo Daime group successfully appealed drug charges. Today, ayahuasca remains illegal; groups are often labeled as dangerous cults and seen as threats to French republican ideals. Inspired by the anthropology of secularism and the sociology of public problems, the book examines how terms like religion, cult, drug, hallucinogen, and cultural heritage are mobilized by various actors in public disputes to shape perceptions and influence policy. It draws on legal cases, public policies, legislation, academic literature, social media, institutional documents, and interviews with key figures involved in regulatory debates. The central thesis - ayahuasca as a lens to understand how states define religion and determine legitimate religious practice - offers fresh perspectives on the intersections of religious freedom, drug policy, and state authority. Bridging multiple disciplines, the book contributes to debates on law and religion, and to a deeper understanding of how democracies manage minority faiths, cultural rights, and the boundaries of state intervention.

ISBN: 9783032043689$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-04368-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1005832
Ayahuasca
--Law and legislation--Brazil.

LC Class. No.: KHD3487

Dewey Class. No.: 344.8104233

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