Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Mapping the Religious Landscape -- Colonial Beginnings -- Emerging Pluralization -- Further Pluralization -- Established Diversity -- 2 Neo-Esoteric Religiosity -- Contemporary Neo-Esotericism -- Temple of Good Will -- Valley of the Dawn -- Gnostic Church of Brazil -- 3 Ayahuasca Religions of Brazil -- Indigenous and Mestiço Origins -- Ayahuasca Religion in Brazil -- Expansion and Diversification -- Conclusion -- 4 New Era Discourse -- Course in New Gnosis -- Architectonic Motifs of New Era Discourse -- The Diffusion of New Era Discourse -- 5 New Era Religiosity in Late-Modern Perspective -- A Broadened Religious Spectrum -- An Enhanced Capacity to Choose -- Social Transformation -- The Meeting of the What and the How -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.