Santo Daime’s European and Brazilian legal controversies
- Date of account
- 2010 onward
- Location
- Céu do Mapiá, Amazonas, and transnational communities
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Santo Daime is a Brazilian syncretic religion using ayahuasca, called Daime, in hymns, disciplined ritual, Christian imagery, and mediumistic or healing settings. Since 2010, its communities have remained involved in debates about religious freedom, controlled substances, ritual safety, environmental sourcing, and international expansion. The lead is valuable for comparing how Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous, Catholic, Spiritist, and New Age elements are narrated within one movement. Researchers should distinguish the movement’s own cosmology from anthropological description, government regulation, court decisions, and contested claims about health or spiritual transformation.
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