Anthropology Category
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here. An economic approach that more astutely tracks what’s at stake in emergent ayahuasca religions might combine Luis León’s idea of ‘religious poetics’ with anthropologist, Michael Taussig’s ficto-criticism of Latin American economies. I cite these…
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The second part can be found here. In this essay I am going to explore New Religious Movements (NRMs) emergent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that use entheogens or psychedelic substances as sacrament. This means that the use of mind-altering substances…