2006-10-31 10:52:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A good book for Wicca is "Wicca:A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham. As far as Santeria and Vodou are concerned it is best to learn from a santero(a) in Santeria or a Mambo or Hougan in Vodou. The practices differ from house to house in the religions. You may read it one way and then when part of a house learn it a different way.
I do know that most of the stuff about Santeria is either not true or way off. A true practitioner would not talk about the religion like that. Santeria is a very quite religion. You may want to visit a botanica to see about learning. However the owner may not practice Santeria. I have not been able to find a practitioner in my area. I gave up on reading about it because of the differences in the practices.
As far as Vodou is concerned it is almost the same thing. You can read all you like but each house practices differently. Once I expressed a genuine interest in the religion the path was opened up for me by my ancestors. I can give you the website of the sosyete I belong to. Mambo Yves Zo is a wonderful, caring, intelligent person. Trust me if she wasn't I would not be part of the house. The link will take you to articles she wrote about Vodou. http://www.sosyetedumarche.com/Vodou_Info/vodou_info.html
2006-11-01 07:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by Nelly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wicca, Voodoo and Santeria for Dummies, by Harmon Glunk
2006-10-31 13:31:08 · answer #2 · answered by heyrobo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pagan refers to all religions that have self belief interior the existence gods as properly YHWH, i.e. Allah, the God that Jews, Christians, Muslims and a few different smaller communities have self belief in. Wicca is a particular cutting-edge pagan faith that originated interior the twentieth century in England. It makes use of non secular innovations drawn from historical paganism, yet isn't area of a non-stop historical custom. Wicca specializes interior the worship of a Goddess and God. The Goddess is many times conceived as a classic triple-goddess. Voodoo, or Vodoun (it has countless spellings) is an African faith it is in all probability as previous or older than any Western faith. It has countless significant gods and spirits. interior the hot worldwide, some forms of it are mixed with Catholic innovations and practices.
2016-10-03 03:46:44 · answer #3 · answered by matlock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very good recommended reading list for Wicca:
http://www.tangledmoon.org/reading_list.htm
Most of these books can be found at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/
Or ordered from your local bookstore.
2006-11-01 00:43:18 · answer #4 · answered by Witchy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try this website I found some interesting books.
http://www.abaxion.com/books.htm
Morgaine
2006-10-31 11:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋