Electric Santería : racial and sexual assemblages of transnational religion
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Electric Santería : racial and sexual assemblages of transnational religion
（Gender, theory, and religion）
Columbia University Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-270) and index
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Description
Santeria is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santeria, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, and religious travelers remake local, national, and political boundaries and reconfigure notions of technology and transnationalism. Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De Jesus traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santeria practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel. Santeria's spirits, deities, and practitioners allow digital technologies to be used in new ways, inciting unique encounters through video and other media.
Doing away with traditional perceptions of Santeria as a static, localized practice or as part of a mythologized "past," this book emphasizes the religion's dynamic circulations and calls for nontranscendental understandings of religious transnationalisms.
Table of Contents
Author's Note Preface: Despedidas Acknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Santeria Assemblages 1. Electric Oricha 2. Transnational Caminos 3. Pacts with Darkness 4. Scent of Empire 5. Contaminating Femininities Epilogue: A Death at Dawn Glossary Notes References Index
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