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Afro-Cuban Religious Arts : Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería by Kristine Juncker; Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“Challenges the reader in provocative new ways. Points to the salient call to action presented by local Santería and Espiritismo arts, ritual, performance, and other cultural forms in addressing core questions of history, legacy, and new beginnings.”—Suzanne Preston Blier, author of __Royal Arts of Africa__ “A much needed study of the manner in which the religious art of women is a fundamental dimension of Afro-Cuban religious ritual, both in the public and private spheres.”—Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, author of __Afro-Cuban Theology__ From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book profiles four generations of women from one Afro-Cuban religious family. The women were connected by their prominent roles as leaders in the religions they practiced and the dramatic ritual artwork they created. Each was a medium in Espiritismo—communicating with dead ancestors for guidance or insight—and also a santera, or priest of Santería, who could engage the oricha pantheon. Kristine Juncker argues that by creating art for more than one religion these women shatter the popular assumption that Afro-Caribbean religions are exclusive

Who reads Afro-Cuban Religious Arts : Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería?

Author

Kristine Juncker; Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813055022

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism