Santeria Healing
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Contemporary Cuba
ISBN-10
081303051X
ISBN-13
9780813030517
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Imprint
University Press of Florida
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2003
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
369 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Tribal religionsTraditional African religions and spiritual beliefs
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Wedel''s account will appeal to scholars and others interested in Santería, Cuba, and religious healing. Santería--with roots in Africa and the slave trade and rituals including divination, animal sacrifice, and possession trance--would seem an anachronism in the modern world. Still, Wedel argues, it offers treatment and ideas about illness that are flourishing and even spreading in the face of Western medicine. He shows that Santería healing is best understood as a transformation of the self, allowing the patient to experience the world in a new way. He grounds his analysis of Santería in lively and sometimes frightening narratives in which people reveal in their own words the experience of illness, sorcery, and healing.
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