From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...

Santeria is essentially an African way of worship drawn into a symbiotic relationship with Catholicism. The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Marcea Eliade Santería is an amorphous, practical, and oral ...

Dancing to the throbbing beat of sacred drums, the congregation circles a man lying face-down on the floor paying thanks to Babalu Aye, a deity in Cuba's Santeria religion. The African-rooted faith ...

Santeria was created in Cuba by the mingling of Yoruba traditions brought by enslaved Africans from Nigeria and Benin with the Roman Catholic faith of the Spanish plantation owners. Attempts were made ...

Santeria religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and powerful, but mortal, spirits, called Orishas. The religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and ...

A recent federal court ruling cast an unusually sympathetic gaze on Santería, a family of Afro-Caribbean cultural and religious practices that most Americans learn about (or imagine they learn about) ...

Follower of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria sits before a ceremony amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease outbreak in Havana HAVANA (Reuters) - The family of Emilia Montoya, 79, ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — A man described by police as a Santeria priest raided a cemetery and took the remains of five people for use in religious ceremonies, authorities said. Amador Medina, 32, was ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives recovered at least one apparent human skull and possibly others from a Compton store where they were being used for Santeria religious ceremonies, officials ...

Just when you think you know a lot about Cuban music, along comes a pair of musicians who tell me one that of the major influences on their pioneering jazz/rock/santeria band was Queen. Yes, that ...

The growth of the Santeria faith (the Way of the Saints) from African roots combined with Catholic elements. Santeria is essentially an African way of worship drawn into a symbiotic relationship with ...