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Reconciling Religious Free Exercise and National Security: Triumph of the Ultimate Compelling Governmental Interest

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Proseus, Gregory P.
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Santeria and Palo Mayombe: Skulls, Mercury, and Artifacts

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2009
Abstract:  Santeria and Palo Mayombe are syncretic religions created in the New World based upon African religious beliefs combined with Christianity. The main worship of Palo Mayombe involves religious receptacles that may contain earth, sticks, varied artifacts, and animal and human remains.
James R, Gill, Christopher W, Rainwater, Bradley J, Adams   +2 more
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The Focus of Cuban Santeria

Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1950
T HE WORSHIP of African deities, as it is practised in Cuba today, is known as santeria. The deities and the men and women who work with them are known by the Spanish words santos, santeros, and santeras, or by the Yoruba words orisha, babalorisha, and iyalorisha.
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Dynamique de la Santeria afro-cubaine

Présence Africaine, 1978
La Santeria: ensemble des pratiques religieuses des Lucumi, premiers esclaves yoruba a Cuba. Analyse syncretique de la Santeria: nature des orisa (orisha)| accent mis sur la participation effective des adeptes| rapports avec la culture dominante hispanique| opportunite d'exprimer ses emotions par la possession| place de la femme dans la Santeria ...
Roberto Nodal, Maud Andre
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Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual The Santeria Case

1998
Abstract In the spring of 1987, a controversy arose in the city of Hialeah, Florida. It began when Ernesto Pichardo, the president and priest of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, issued a public statement describing the church’s plan to build a worship and education center on city land that the church previously had leased.
F Barbara Orlans, Tom L Beauchamp, Rebecca Dresser, David B Morton, John P Gluck   +4 more
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Mental Illness Complicated by the Santeria Belief in Spirit Possession

Psychiatric Services, 1988
Santeria, a religious system that blends African and Catholic beliefs, is practiced by many Cuban Americans. One aspect of this system is the belief in spirit possession. Basic santeria beliefs and rituals, including the fiesta santera (a gathering at which some participants may become possessed), are briefly described, and four cases in which the ...
L, Alonso, W D, Jeffrey
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Santeria as a mental health care system: An historical overview

Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology, 1979
Abstract During the last 20 years, Santeria, an Afro-Cuban cult organization which had previously nourished in certain parts of the island of Cuba, has taken root in several areas of the United States, primarily in Florida, New York, New Jersey and California. This Afro-Cuban religious system has an essentially African world view and rituals.
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Sacred Possessions: Vodun, Santeria, Obeah and the Caribbean

American Anthropologist, 1998
Sacred Possessions: Vodun, Santeria, Obeah and the Caribbean. Margarite Fernandez Olmos and Iizbeth Paravisini‐Gerbert. eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. 312 pp.
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Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in Afro-Cuban Religion

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2004
Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in Afro-Cuban Religion. By David H. Brown. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 413; 27 illustrations. $38.00 / £27.00 paper. David Brown's work on Santeria altars and material culture owes much to Thompson's cross-Atlantic, comparativist approach.1 Santeria Enthroned is ...
Solimar Otero, David H. Brown
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