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) ...

HAVANA — The sound of drums invades a devastated street in Centro Habana, the Havana neighborhood most affected by Hurricane Irma, which unleashed her fury on the old, patched-up Spanish palaces. The ...

Santería might seem like an obscure occult practice akin to black magic or voodoo to the uninitiated. But for those with Caribbean roots, it's simply another aspect of the culture of our multifaceted ...

In the October, 1993 print edition of High Times, Eric Williams writes about the pantheistic Afro-Cuban religious tradition of Santeria. The religion’s future following the ruling is still uncertain.

CHICAGO — On a shelf in the office of Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen, mixed in among the family photos, the Roberto Clemente bobblehead and the Napoleon Dynamite figurine, are four small but ...

The island’s syncretic religion, which blends west African deities – orishas – with Christian saints, is widely practised and deeply intertwined with Catholicism When Pope Francis pays homage today at ...

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 ...