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Religion, Place, And Identity At The Intersection Of Cultural Bricolage: The Miami Santo Daime Church Revisited, Alfonso Matas Oct 2020

Religion, Place, And Identity At The Intersection Of Cultural Bricolage: The Miami Santo Daime Church Revisited, Alfonso Matas

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This dissertation is an exploration of the Santo Daime Church in Miami, focusing on the challenges of balancing institutional stability with continual growth and innovation. Santo Daime—whose central ritual entails the consumption of the mind-altering ayahuasca brew—is a new religious movement that amalgamates indigenous Amazonian, Afro-Brazilian, and popular Catholic traditions. Between June 2016 and December 2018, I employed participant observation, semi-structured interviews, exegesis of sacred songs, and document analysis to investigate the meanings and lived experiences of church leaders and adherents as they relate to their religious identity and agency. Specifically, this study asks three research questions: What global processes …


"Corporate Power, Class Conflict, And The Crisis Of The New Globalization" By Ronald W. Cox, (Lexington Books, 2019) A Review Essay, Daniel Skidmore-Hess Apr 2020

"Corporate Power, Class Conflict, And The Crisis Of The New Globalization" By Ronald W. Cox, (Lexington Books, 2019) A Review Essay, Daniel Skidmore-Hess

Class, Race and Corporate Power

A review of Ronald W. Cox's "Corporate Power, Class Conflict, and the Crisis of the New Globalization" published by Lexington Books, 2019.


Innovations In Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation To Making It Real, Kim Scipes Apr 2020

Innovations In Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation To Making It Real, Kim Scipes

Class, Race and Corporate Power

Ever since the mid-1840s, there has been an exhortation for workers of the world to unite globally. With the exception of a three-year period between 1946 and 1949 - with the founding and development of the World Federation of Trade Unions immediately after the end of World War II - this has been generally a call limited to rhetoric only. The growing understanding of a globalizing world today, however - affecting the world of work, workers and their organizations - suggests it time for workers to try to make it real. This paper examines two issues pertinent to this new …