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Author Wirtz, Kristina.

Title Ritual, discourse, and community in Cuban Santería : speaking a sacred world / Kristina Wirtz.

Publication Info. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2007]
©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary Cuba
Contemporary Cuba.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
Contents Introduction : telling moments -- "All the priests in the house" : defining Santería -- Competing histories and dueling moralities -- From skepticism to faith : narratives of religious experience -- Skepticism in faith : evaluating religious experiences in rituals -- Respecting the religion, advancing in the religion -- Building a moral community out of critique and controversy -- Conclusion : the promise.
Summary Drawing on ethnographic research about Santeria beliefs and practices, Wirtz observes that practitioners are constantly engaged in reflection about what they and other practitioners are doing, how the orichas (deities) have responded, and what the consequences of their actions were or will be.
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Subject Santeria -- Cuba -- Santiago de Cuba -- Case studies.
Santeria.
Cuba -- Santiago de Cuba.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Communities -- Religious aspects -- Case studies.
Communities -- Religious aspects.
Santeria -- Case studies.
Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Wirtz, Kristina. Ritual, discourse, and community in Cuban Santería. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2007 9780813030647 (DLC) 2007004257 (OCoLC)82471784
ISBN 9780813037035 (electronic book)
0813037034 (electronic book)
9780813030647
0813030641

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