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2006-07-12 18:06:17 · 6 answers · asked by so_disturbed_16 2 in Entertainment & Music Movies

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Santeria is one of the many syncretic religions created in the New World. It is based on the West African religions brought to the new world by slaves imported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations. These slaves carried with them their own religious traditions, including a tradition of possession trance for communicating with the ancestors and deities, the use of animal sacrifice and the practice of sacred drumming and dance. Those slaves who landed in the Carribean, central and south America were nominally converted to Catholicism. However, they were able to preserve some of their traditions by fusing together various Dahomean, baKonga and Yoruban beliefs and rituals and by syncretizing these with elements from the surrounding Catholic culture. In Cuba this religious tradition has evolved into what we know today as Santería, the Way of the Saints. Today hundreds of thousands of Americans participate in this ancient religion. Some are fully committed priests and priestesses, others are "godchildren" or members of a particular house-tradition, many are clients seeking help with their everyday problems. Many are of Hispanic and Caribbean descent but as the religion moves out of the inner cities an into the suburbs a growing number are of African-American and European-American heritage. As the Ifa religion of Africa was recreated in the Americas it was transformed, today as it moves moves into mainstream America we can expect further tranformation.

2006-07-12 18:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by MTSU history student 5 · 0 0

Santeria is a religion similar to Voodoo, it was initially formed in 1571 (see my first source). Santeria combines Spanish Catholicism and the Yoruba devotion to the Orishas from Cuba, with heavy accent on the Catholic Saints. The Yoruba religion was from Africa, brought to the New World by black slaves. When the Spanish converted everyone they could find to Catholicism the people in the area accepted the religion, and blended it with their own.

The religion is practiced a lot in the Caribbean and New Orleans areas. It involves the belief in a lot of spirits that can be invoked or pleased through various rituals. The Catholic Saints were just added to their catalog of sprits. Animal sacrifices are also common. Another feature is to create fetishes; a bag of odd “magical” ingredients that can provide protection against, or invoke the spirits. Those that practice the black version make curses and may even participate in human sacrifice.

Ron Stanford and Ivan Drufoka: http://www.hechicero.com/home2.html
Sponsors a web site as a practicing sorcerer in the religion, from New Jersey.

2006-07-12 18:35:08 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0 0

It is a religion founded in 1517 by Yoruba slaves in Cuba.

2006-07-12 18:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by vadragonslayer 3 · 0 0

a place that sells religious items..

like rosaries and stuff.

at least that's what I think you're talking about..

?

edit: well, where I'm from a santeria is a place where they sell religious items.. : /

2006-07-12 18:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by Belen 3 · 0 0

its like a catholic based witchcraft.here in san antonio a lot of people practice it.its a mixture of voodoo and catholoscism.who am i kiddin catholocism is witchcraft with all its rituals.

2006-07-12 18:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by juan m 2 · 0 0

a religion/practice/culture

2006-07-12 18:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by fatally_yours828 1 · 0 0

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