Duke Scholar Explores A Potent Brew of Religion, Ritual and Psychedelic Drugs

Duke Scholar Explores A Potent Brew of Religion, Ritual and Psychedelic Drugs Religious studies instructor Larissa Carneiro has followed her romantic and academic heart to Durham and then back to Brazil to study the ayahuasca-embracing Church of Santo Daime, “Saint Give Me” Carneiro was born in São Sebastião do Paraíso, Brazil, and started her first life (or two) after moving to Belo Horizonte when she was 15 years old. There, she started on a path that would take her from reporting on the...