Becoming Santeria
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Becoming Santeria
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Author : Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesú́́́s
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Becoming Santeria written by Aisha Mahina Beliso-De Jesú́́́s and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Santeria
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Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
language : en
Publisher: Eerdmans
Release Date : 2004-08-23
Santeria written by Miguel A. De La Torre and has been published by Eerdmans this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-23 with Religion categories.
This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santería — a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santería 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, Santería came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition. Apart from vague suspicions that Santería's rituals include animal sacrifice and notions that it is a "syncretistic" form of Catholicism, most people in America's cultural and religious mainstream know very little about this rich faith tradition — in fact, many have never heard of it at all. De La Torre, who was reared in Santería, sets out in this book to provide a basic understanding of its inner workings. He clearly explains the particular worldview, myths, rituals, and practices of Santería, and he discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today. In offering a balanced, informed survey of Santería from his unique "insider-outsider" perspective, De La Torre also provides insight into how Christianity and Santería can enter into dialogue — a dialogue that will challenge Christians to consider what this emerging faith tradition can teach them about their own. Enhanced with illustrations, tables, and a glossary, De La Torre's Santería sheds light on a religion all too often shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.
Handbook Of Racism Xenophobia And Populism
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Author : Adebowale Akande
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-08
Handbook Of Racism Xenophobia And Populism written by Adebowale Akande and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-08 with Political Science categories.
This handbook presents the roots of symbolic racism as partly in both anti-black antagonism and non-racial conservative attitudes and values, representing a new form of racism independent of older racial and political attitudes. By doing so, it homes in on certain historical incidents and episodes and presents a cogent analysis of anti-black, Jim Crowism, anti-people of color (Black, Latino, Native Americans), and prejudice that exists in the United States and around the world as a central tenet of racism. The book exposes the reader to the nature and practice of stereotyping, negative bias, social categorization, modern forms of racism, immigration law empowerment, racialized incarceration, and police brutality in the American heartland. It states that several centuries of white Americans’ negative socializing culture marked by widespread negative attitudes toward African Americans, are not eradicated and are still rife. Further, the book provides a panoramic view of trends of racial discrimination and other negative and desperate challenges that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color face across the world. Finally, the volume examines xenophobia, racism, prejudice, and stereotyping in different contexts, including topics such as Covid-19, religion and racism, information manipulation, and populism. The book, therefore, is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science, psychology, history, sociology, communications/media studies, diplomatic studies, and law in general, as well as ethnic and racial studies, American politics, global affairs, populism, and discrimination in particular.
My Life In Service To The Orishas
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Author : Orunmila's Servant
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2018-02-02
My Life In Service To The Orishas written by Orunmila's Servant and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Italian-American Orunmila’s Servant escapes a troubled, at-risk boyhood by joining the United States Marines. After years in the military and a number of deployments, he comes to feel as if his life has never been his own. But one very early morning in 2011, as he’s casually smoking a cigarette while driving to work, everything changes. Alone in his car, Orunmila’s Servant hears a crystal-clear voice, and it says, “It’s time...time to practice Santeria.” From that moment on, a whole new world opens up for him, as he pitches himself into a fervent quest to learn all the secrets of the Orishas and create a happy, meaningful life for himself. In a passionate, yet frequently hilarious companion piece to his first book, Orunmila’s Words Don't Touch the Floor IFA Odu Synthesis, Orunmila’s Servant chronicles his adventurous rise to joy and enlightenment in service to the Orishas, while compassionately lighting the way for others to follow.
Traveling Cultures And Plants
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Author : Andrea Pieroni
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009-10
Traveling Cultures And Plants written by Andrea Pieroni and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Medical categories.
The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?
Animal Sacrifice And Religious Freedom
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Author : David M. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Animal Sacrifice And Religious Freedom written by David M. O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The Santeria religion of Cuba—the Way of the Saints—mixes West AfricanYoruba culture with Catholicism. Similar to Haitian voodoo, Santeria has long practiced animal sacrifice in certain rites. But when Cuban immigrants brought those rituals to Florida, local authorities were suddenly confronted with a controversial situation that pitted the regulation of public health and morality against religious freedom. After Ernesto Pichardo established a Santeria church in Hialeah in the 1980s, the city of Hialeah responded by passing ordinances banning ritual animal sacrifice. Although on the surface those ordinances seemed general in intent, they were clearly aimed at Pichardo's church. When Pichardo subsequently sued the city, a federal court ruled in the latter's favor, in effect privileging the regulation of public health and morality over the church's free exercise of its religion. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Pichardo's appeal in 1993 and unanimously decided that the city had overstepped its bounds in targeting this particular religious group; however, the court was sharply divided regarding the basis of its decision. Three concurring opinions registered distinctly different views of the First Amendment, the limits of government regulation, and the religious freedom of minorities. In the end, the nine justices collectively concluded that freedom of religious belief was absolute while the freedom to practice the tenets of any faith were subject to non-discriminatory local regulations. David O'Brien, one of America's foremost scholars of the Court, now illuminates this controversy and its significance for law, government, and religion in America. His lively account takes us behind the scenes at every stage of the litigation to reveal a riveting case with more twists and turns than a classic whodunit. Ranging with equal ease from primitive magic to municipal politics and to the most arcane points of constitutional law, O'Brien weaves a compelling and instructive tale with a fascinating array of politicians, lawyers, jurists, civil libertarians, and animal rights advocates. Offering sharp insights into the key issues and personalities, he highlights cultural clashes large and small, while maintaining a balance for both the needs of government and the religious rights of individuals. The "Santeria case" reaffirmed that our laws must be generally applicable and neutral and may not discriminate against particular religions. Tracing the path to that conclusion, Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom provides a provocative and learned account of one of the most unusual and contentious religious freedom cases in American history.
The Santeria Experience
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Author : Migene González-Wippler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Santeria Experience written by Migene González-Wippler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
First published in 1982, this book received critical acclaim as one woman's autobiographical account of the magicoreligious system that remains an enigma to the Christian world. In this raw, emotional story, Migene reports her own extraordinary encounters with the religion as both a researcher and initiate. She also shares actual offerings and rituals that you can do to enlist the aid of the African deities for specific purposes!
Beyond Deceptions Myths And Lies
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Author : Soyinka Iyabo Ogunbusola
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2008-04-21
Beyond Deceptions Myths And Lies written by Soyinka Iyabo Ogunbusola and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-21 with Fiction categories.
Beyond Deceptions Myths and Lies reveal the origins of distorted misrepresentations of traditional African spiritual systems. It also reveals how the slave trade was responsible for spiritually de-Africanizing 80% of the African descendent population in the Diaspora, fragmenting numerous African cultures, spiritual systems and traditions. Beyond Deceptions Myths and Lies unlocks the truth in how systematic methods of self hate and mis-education through Western religious concepts have vilified traditional African spiritual systems and concepts of those enslaved by Christian colonizers whose religious traditions justified and sanctioned one of the worlds most heinous atrocities in history, the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Santer A Aesthetics In Contemporary Latin American Art
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Author : Arturo Lindsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Santer A Aesthetics In Contemporary Latin American Art written by Arturo Lindsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art and religion categories.
Santeria
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Author : Joseph M. Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-04
Santeria written by Joseph M. Murphy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04 with Religion categories.
"A first-hand account that vividly evokes the rites of the Orisha tradition: divination, dance, and initiation"--Cover.