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Journal of Auto-Academia © 2025 Graduate Student Association, Joint Doctoral Program in the Study of Religion at the University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology (Denver, CO) Vol. 0 (1): 95–109.
I examine the history of mushrooms in Mexico, then dive into the emergence of two mushroom churches in the US: The Divine Assembly (TDA) and Psanctuary; I follow this by discussing the role of mushrooms in each church and end with the legal implications of the use of mushrooms in these churches. I argue that despite these churches’ attempt to subvert Eurochristianity, 2 their use of mushrooms as sacraments fits in with neoshamanism. 3 Here we can see the cultural erasure of the Indigenous people in Mexico from which sacramental usage of mushrooms stemmed.
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