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Jurema


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    • Jurema (Cult)
    • Yarema
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    • Jurema (Cult)
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    • found: Work cat.: Assunção, L. O reino dos mestres, 2006:p. 17 (culto da jurema) (DLC)2006450280
    • found: Britannica online viewed May 24, 2024:(Drug cult; A drink prepared from the shrub Mimosa hostilis that is said to produce glorious visions in warriors before battle, is used ritually in the ajuca ceremony of the Jurema cult in eastern Brazil.)
    • found: Friends of the forest WWW site, March 30, 2007:Jurema page (Jurema cult)
    • found: Indo-Atfro-European [sic] syncretic cults in Brazil WWW page, March 30, 2007:p. 6 ("Jurema is probably the oldest mediumistic cult in north-eastern Brazil ... Although some of their practices have undeniable Amerindian roots, it is also clear that the cult has been affected by many Iberian and African admixtures")
    • found: The Journal of American Folklore:vol. 57, no. 224. (Apr. -June, 1944), p. 133 (Yarema cult)
    • found: Encyclopedia of Global Religion (Vol. 1.), June 8, 2023(Jurema of the Brazilian North: Jurema refers to spiritual practices of Afro-Brazilian people. Jurema includes Bushes thought sacred by indigenous populations and caboclas, a drink prepared with the bark and leaves of the Jurema plant, therapeutic manifestations, spiritual entities that live in jurema, and the feminine spiritual entity Cabocla Jurema)
    • found: Grünewald, R., Savolid, R., and Collins, M. "Jurema In Contemporary Brazil: Ritual Re-Actualizations, Mysticism, Consciousness, And Healing" in Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 33, Issue 2, pp. 307--332(jurema can be a plant, a beverage, a religious ceremony, an entity, a spiritual world or plane, a metaphysical indigenous woman, a spiritual path, or a person's name, among other things) - https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12150
  • History Notes

    • [Heading changed from Jurema (Cult) to Jurema in December 2024.]
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    • 2007-04-19: new
    • 2024-12-11: revised
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