Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America De La Torre Miguel A.Paperback
This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santer a - a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own…
Specifikacia Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America De La Torre Miguel A.Paperback
This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santer a - a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santer a is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. As a faith of the marginalized and persecuted, it gave oppressed men and women strength and the will to survive. With the exile of thousands of Cubans in the wake of Castro's revolution in 1959, Santer a came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition. Apart from vague suspicions that Santer a's rituals include animal sacrifice and notions that it is a "syncretistic" form of