Released special edition "The Light from the Forest: the Ritual Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil", by Beatriz Labate and Edward MacRae (eds.)

Dear Friends,I am happy to announce that finally this work has come out, after 6 years of a great ammount of effort to edit, translate and find a publisher abroad! I hope that this publication in English will play an important role in the field of studies about the Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions which are now spreading around the globe.Enjoy!Read!Viva! Iupii!Journal Fieldwork in Religion - Vol 2, No 3 (2006)Click here to have access to the Journal. Table of ContentsEditorial  by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edward MacRaeBrazilian Literature on Ayahuasca Religions, by Beatriz Caiuby LabateThe Use of Ayahuasca among Rubber Tappers of the Upper Juruá, by Mariana Ciavatta Pantoja and Osmildo Silva da ConceiçãoThe Rituals of Santo Daime: 'Systems of Symbolic Constructions', by Arneide CeminReligious Matrices of the União do Vegetal, by Sandra Lucia GoulartIn the Light of Hoasca: An Approach to the Religious Experience of Participants of the União do Vegetal, by Sérgio BrissacThe Barquinha: Symbolic Space of a Cosmology in the Making, by Wladimyr Sena AraújoHealing in the Barquinha Religion, by Christian FrenopouloThe Religious Uses of Licit and Illicit Psychoactive Substances in a Branch of the Santo Daime Religion, by Edward MacRae