The following work is the result of a field research conducted in the months March to July 2001 in Rio de Janeiro through a grant under a conventional interchange project with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ. The thesis is the syncreatic cult of the neocristian religious movement known as the Santo Daime that was raised in the 1930s of the century in which they are re-interpreted, in modern, Christian and esoteric key, traditional practices of amazonic shamanism. The aim is to present an introduction to the general topic, a history of the particular phenomenon in question and some socio-cultural, political-economic and historical-religious implications and implications and implications and implications concerning both the birth of the movement, in the context of the mestizo populations of the western Amazon in the thirties, and to its current spread in metropolitan areas, not only in Brazil but in many states on the five continents, in agreement with the current “globalism” that already involves all human activities in the sphere of influence of the so-called Western civilization. The work is accompanied by a documentary section in the appendix, which provides documentary material related to the research subject, which we tried to make as complete as possible considering the extreme small amount of material published in Italy and the need to best select a large collection of ethnographic material found during field research.