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SACRED SPACES AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF ORIENTE CUBA
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| By: |
Jualynne E. Dodson |
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Hardback |
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£38.95 |
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£37.78 |
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£1.17 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0826343538 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826343536 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2008 |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
Explores sacred spaces constructed between 1998 and 2007 by the practitioners of four religions in Cuba's eastern Oriente region: Palo Mayombe, Vodu, Muertera Bembe de Sao, and, Espiritismo. This title also offers a overview of religious development in Cuba and practitioners' struggle for a self-defined nature for their religious activities. |
| Synopsis: |
Spaces set apart by religious practitioners to represent their understanding of the sacredness of their world provide useful windows into the collective history and the expression of ideas of a religion and its followers. Jualynne Dodson explores sacred spaces constructed between 1998 and 2007 by contemporary practitioners of four popular religions in Cuba's eastern Oriente region. Three of these religions, Palo Mayombe, Vodu, and Muertera Bembe de Sao, are Africa-based traditions while the fourth, Espiritismo, is indigenous to Cuba and Oriente, though it evolved from traditions of the U.S. and Europe. While the religions vary in historical development, in material artifact, and ritual activities that comprise their content, images in this book reflect inherited and shared cosmic orientation of the traditions.The investigation of Dodson and the African Atlantic Research team offers an interconnected examination of the history and embedded understandings of these four religions while simultaneously offering a panoramic view of religious development in Cuba and practitioners' struggle for a self-defined, Africa-based nature for their religious activities on the island. |
| Illustrations: |
18 colour photographs, 6 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of New Mexico Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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