O canto e o bailado para a lua cheia: o Santo Daime incorporado à vida urbana de São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Bercê, Jair
• Orientador(a): Arruda, Rinaldo Sérgio Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Rituais daimistas; Centro Ecletico da Fluente Luz Universal Flor de Luz; Cultos > Sao Paulo (cidade); Santo Daime
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Daime rituals
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3828

What does Santo Daime mean to believers who look for this specific religious line in São Paulo? What senses can Santo Daime ofter to this chaos in wich lots of people apparently live in and it is defined by social scientists as after modernity, paradigm crisis and so on? What are the paths led by Santo Daime in São Paulo ? In order to throw a light on these questions and to point a way out of this theorical maze I decided to do this work. Its goal is to comprehend the role of Santo Daime on filling the blanks left by the thing I name the sattering of the soul , for the absence of definition it stands for after-modernity . I attempt to analyze the way cosmology and the Daime rituals try to put the pieces together and if this process achieve it s goal. The analysis is grounded on the belief that it happens through a symbolic process most times uncounsciously wich builds identity based on some elements of the ritual and of cosmology. This is what stabilish harmony among the religious comunity and makes and ethos and a word view. At the same time it offers freewill, the is to say, freedom. I tried to find the answers by a ethnographical research following Geertz methodology and theorical steps at Community Daimista Flor de Luz, Céu de Midam. I tried to understand the way this religious community develops a cosmological line which is apparenty way too different from the ones we find in other religious community: The Star Command Cosmological Line. This cosmological line is the object of my study in this work. The goal focuses on showing the peculiarity of Church Flor de Luz before other Santo Daime religious communities in Brazil. I also tried to answer this question: will the doctrine ever reach the point of bringing sense to these people from São Paulo who come to this very religiosity in after-modernity era ? Stated another way, will Santo Daime ever be able to lead to a good term this ambition of transforming this routine of illusion by waking what is transcendental in mankind? Thus, I intend to show how the everyday-life make a normal relation with the Daime believers religious rountine just like the way it is possible in other religious communities. The anthropological question of turning the exotic into familiar an showing the exotic in the familiar. The main password to get into this cultural universe is the comprehension of the ritual use of this knowledge herb . Therefore Daime is the key to roam to look for all these worlds. It is the vessel that puts you in touch with this cosmological universe