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Santería in New York City
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Steven Gregory
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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In revising his 1985 doctoral dissertation for the New School for Social Research, Gregory has not attempted to incorporate scholarship since then on the Afro-C
Santeria from Africa to the New World
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: George Brandon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-03-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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"On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of Afric
Electric Santería
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-bas
A Year in White
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: C. Lynn Carr
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-19 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fif
Caribbean Diaspora in the USA
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Dr Bettina Schmidt
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Caribbean Diaspora in the USA presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture