Word: santeria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drawn from most of them--other than goat sacrificing." He adds that last part with a minor-key smile that doesn't quite make it through all the paces. (Jackpot! A slipup in front of a reporter! Pitt's movies will now be boycotted by Satanists and practitioners of Santeria...
...than 12 Asatru Websites are listed in the Yahoo! Web-indexing service). But there are plenty of other nearly extinct or quite localized creeds that could expand their compass via the Internet and thus heighten the world's already ample multiculturalism, for better or worse. Paganism, shamanism, voodoo, gnosticism, santeria--these and scores more are out there, accessible worldwide. So is the expanding pool of freshly coined sects, some of which will presumably survive. All this may seem unimportant now, with so many Websites looking so gray. But as bandwidth grows, the Web will become a dirt-cheap form...
...Supreme Court lowered -- a bit -- the barrier between religion and public schools. A unanimous court, with White writing, said schools that permit outside organizations to meet on their property after class hours must extend the same right to religious groups. In a case involving the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria, they also ruled that religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services. The Justices also unanimously backed the right of states to impose harsher sentences on assailants who commit hate crimes in which they choose their victims based on race, religion or other biases. "A physical...
...grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...
...seem monstrous if they weren't essentially benign -- horse-headed women, birdlike deities, masks conflated with breasts but equipped with phallic chins. The second is the persistence of religious motifs that no European artist was likely to grasp but that were of deep significance to Lam -- the symbols of Santeria ceremonies. Why do Lam's women have heads like horses? Not, fundamentally, because of Picasso and Guernica but because in Santeria ceremonies the medium is known as a caballo, a "horse" carrying the spirit...