Word: santeria
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...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...
...Court's begrudging and dismissive attitude towards the importance of religion may prevent the Hialeah ordinance from being overturned. On the other hand, it's fairly obvious that the ordinance had Santeria specifically in mind, so perhaps the Court will recognize that this is a case of discrimination...
...only interest that the city of Hialeah might have in regulating Santeria practices is the public health problem caused by disposal of the dead animals. The answer to this, however, is simply to make sure the church complies with the same public health regulations as butchers. Prohibition of all sacrifice is unnecessary...