Caribbean Espiritismo (Spiritist) Altars: The Indian and the Congo

Bettelheim, Judith

doi:10.1080/00043079.2005.10786241

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“…Secrecy is not a Yoruba tradition in Africa, but it is still observed in Cuba today (González-Wippler [1989] 2010). Orishas (Afro-Cuban deities) are identified with specific saints, and Catholic iconography appears in Santería altars (Bettelheim 2005). Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the different strands (reglas) of Afro-Cuban practices became homogenized into an interconnected corpus of beliefs known today as Regla de Ocha (Rule of Ocha) or Santería, from Yoruba traditions, and its somewhat darker shade-Palo Monte, Regla Kimbisa, or Mayomberia-from Congo and Angola (Bolívar Aróstegui 1995).…”

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Healing Practices and Revolution in Socialist Cuba

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2014

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More than a state ideology, the concept of 'Revolution' holds multiple meanings for Cubans. A historic moment, the government, the country, the people-Revolution is any one of these and all of them at once. How, then, do people experience a permanent Revolution in their daily lives? The interactions between biomedicine, alternative health practices, and the syncretic system of beliefs known as Santería have important implications for the socialist project of the Revolution. As a central concern of Revolution, health provides a particularly clear example of the interaction between revolutionary ideology and practice. This distinction elucidates the epistemological and experiential complexity of Revolution, providing the Cuban state with a powerful signifier that allows it to adapt to situations of crisis, continuously reinvent itself, and be in a permanent state of Revolution.

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