Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

Plasticidade e pessoalidade no espiritismo crioulo cubano

“…Formas de independências ritual e cosmológica vinculam irremediavelmente o espiritismo à Santería, por exemplo, o culto cubano aos orixás (orichas), de inspiração vinda da África Ocidental (Brown 2003;Cabrera 1998). Isto pode ser aferido de maneira bastante óbvia na máxima sagrada de "ikulobiocha", que pragmaticamente determina que nenhum trabalho com os orixás pode ser feito antes de se apaziguar e cuidar dos rituais para ancestrais e parentes, os eggúns.…”

The Anagó Language of Cuba

“…27 The Anagó speaking community preserved many songs, prayers and chants that are used in Lucumí ceremony. The Egbado ethnic group has been identified by David H. Brown (2003) as one of the principal contributors to that corpus but he has also documented Oyó based contributions as well as Arará and Yesá ethnic group traditional songs and prayers. 29 If the literary corpus of songs, prayers and chants utilized by the Anagó speaking community has retained such a well defined indication of ethnic identity and origin, then it is safe to say that the dialects associated with those groups are present in the Anagó language.…”

Santeria as an Informal Psychosocial Support Among Latinas Living with Cancer

“…The descendants of those who spoke Yoruba became the Lucumí nation and managed to solidify an identity in spite of attempts to prevent collective action (Brandon, 1993). However, prior to doing so, Brown (2003) discusses the micro-societies that were created in place of natural families (palenques and sanctioned social clubs called cofradias, and cabildos in urban areas such as Havana)…”

“…These social clubs participated in public processions and performances on Catholic holy days and saints' feast days. They were also the means by which Yoruba religion was preserved within the clubs' identities; identities which increasingly aligned with the spiritual path followed by the members and less on ethnic composition (Brandon, 1993;Brown, 2003). It was these cabildos and homes of free blacks that took the place of African temples.…”

“…Only after generations of transcultural evolution was there a reconciliation and fusion of cosmologies. However, the Ifá literary corpus is considered the foundation of Santería with its epistemological framework built on the role of the orisha as an essential, defining attribute of this belief system (Brown, 2003). The role of Ifá and the babalawo in the establishment of Lucumí religion in Cuba is significant (Brown, 2003).…”