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This article focuses on the legal disputes between the U.S. government and the Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal (UDV), as well as on the regulation of the religious use of ayahuasca by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Our aim is to present the main issues that were at stake throughout the dispute, especially the relationship between the limits of religious freedom when associated with the use of controlled substances.

Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Religious Pluralism and Law in Contemporary Brazil -- 1 The Legal-Administrative Changes of the Post-Constituent Pluralist State -- 2 Religious Activism and Rights -- 3 Part 1. Pluralism: Minority Rights, Religious Freedom and Secularism -- 4 Part 2. Human Rights as Language -- References -- Part I: Pluralism: Minority Rights, Religious Freedom and Secularism -- Religion and Laicity in Dispute: Two Categories Under Construction in Brazil´s Legal Debate on Religious Education in Public S... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Religious Education as a Public Issue in a Historical Perspective -- 2.1 Religious Education in Republican Constitutions -- 2.2 Religious Education Regulations in the National Education Guidelines and Framework Law of 1961, 1996 and 1997 -- 2.3 Religious Education Regulations in the Agreement Between the Holy See and Brazil -- 3 Debates on the Unconstitutionality of Religious Education in the Public Hearing -- 3.1 The Characters and the Game´s Rules -- 3.2 The Rules -- 3.3 The Debate: Presentations, Categories, Arguments, and Positions -- 3.4 Presentations of Executive and Legislative Representatives -- 3.5 Arguments of Legislative Representatives -- 3.6 Presentations and Arguments of Civil Society Representatives -- 3.7 Demonstrations by Representatives of Religious Organizations -- 3.8 Demonstration by Representatives of Non-Religious Organizations -- 4 Final Considerations -- References -- Evangelical Jurists and Human Rights in Brazil: A Case Study of the National Association of Evangelical Jurists (ANAJURE) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 3 The Political Context of the Emergence of ANAJURE -- 4 The Process of Mobilizing Jurists on Behalf of Evangelicals -- 5 The Supreme Federal Court´s Criminalization of Violence Against Homosexuals.