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I famous by way of Linked In that Kimberly had written a paper on mushroom church buildings within the US.
She’s simply began her examine however preliminary findings are attention-grabbing (and never that stunning)
In the primary church buildings seem to function as companies, there’s little or no hyperlink to indigenous historical past and the vast majority of shamans aapear to be simply somebody deciding they’re a shaman.
The dialog informed me one factor.
Issues are going to worsen earlier than they get higher.
Thankyou to Kimberly for making these preliminary investigations.
She guarantees there may be extra to come back.
I grew up in Los Angeles, CA. I then graduated with a B.A. in Spiritual Research from the College of Southern California in 2021. I obtained a M.A. in Faith at Yale Divinity College in 2023 the place I emphasised in Latinx and Latin American Christianity. I began her PhD journey within the Joint Diploma Program on the College of Denver and Iliff College of Theology. I’m beginning my third yr within the fall of 2025.
My motive for pursuing a PhD in spiritual research is to additional discover indigenous religions and practices that aren’t considered genuine by the dominant Euro-American tradition and, in flip, deliver them to mild within the educational canons of spiritual research. I would like the re-telling of their tales to come back from them and not from an outsider’s perspective. I’m not solely within the analysis side, but additionally the educating points and mentoring of scholars. I wish to be an inspiration for others to consider that they will obtain a excessive degree of schooling and continued engagement with their communities as effectively as a result of that was one thing I by no means knew, particularly as a low-income, first-generation Mexican girl from South Los Angeles. I aspire to show at a college, faculty, or seminary the place I can train a wide range of programs from: introduction to faith, world religions, Latinx research, anthropology, indigenous research, and feminist research. My present dissertation is tentatively on the up to date growth of “Mushroom” church buildings in the US, and after I plan to jot down a e-book concerning the traditions and practices of indigenous religions in Mexico and their spiritual use of hallucinogenic mushrooms thought-about sacred for hundreds of years earlier than Spanish colonization and their compelled conversion to Christianity.
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