Word: santeria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds of praise and ecstatic celebration filled Lowell House's Junior Common Room yesterday as about 70 people joined in a tribute to Shango, the spirit of lightning and thunder in the Santeria tradition...
...Santeria is a Cuban religion with traditions drawn from Yoruba tribal worship and blended with Roman Catholicism...
Yesterday's ceremony marked the first time that the House of Obatala, a community of Santeria believers in the Boston area, has celebrated at Harvard...
...Cuba. Catholic Church attendance, baptisms, confirmations, religious weddings and funerals are all on the rise. In this traditionally Catholic nation, almost equal numbers attend Catholic Mass or evangelical services, and the religion with the most adherents of all--perhaps half the population--is the Afro-Cuban rite of Santeria. Its babalaos (spiritual guides) far exceed the Catholic priests in influence, but its home-based, loose network of competing sects poses no political threat. Economic hardship is a powerful motivator: many of those new congregants of all faiths are searching for material sustenance in the food and medical...
...Combine that with the fact that the dominant form of religion on the island is Catholicism?s Afro-Cuban alter ego, Santeria, with which the Cuban church hierarchy has an uncomfortable relationship, and the Pope has his pastoral work...