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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria: Speaking a Sacred World - Contemporary Cuba Kristina Wirtz Annotated edition
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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria: Speaking a Sacred World - Contemporary Cuba
Kristina Wirtz
How do Santeria practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst disagreements and competition among them? Examining the religious lives of santeros in Santiago de Cuba, this book argues that these communities hold together not because members agree on their interpretations of rituals but because they often disagree.
288 pages, 26 b&w figures, notes, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 30, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813030647 |
| Publishers | University Press of Florida |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 24 mm · 583 g |