Afro-Cuban Religion and Culture
Updated 01-15-01

Articles, Journals, Books


• Palo.org - Articles and resources on Palo and Lukumi.
• Latino Literature Home Page - page on Santeria currently under construction.
• "Factores culturales y la diversidad Biologica Cubana." - Article from The Latin American Alliance that contains a section on Santeria and the environment.
• Santeria Books - Reviews of books on Santeria.
• Lily Díaz. "A Structuralist Analysis of Puerto Rican Santería."
• ABC News.com: Santeria Has a Hold on Cuba  
• Revista Ashe -Una revista especializada en Santería.
• Bibliography of African Traditional Religion - Award winning and extensive.
• Keys to Feminine Empowerment - A discussion of Yoruban religion and Feminism.
• "Adivinacion" - by Javier Normand, La Revista
• Santeria: Cuba's mysterious Third Force - Hypertext article with RealAudio files and other resources.
• Solimar Otero: Ikú and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the Film Guantanamera
• Deborah Wyrick: Divine Transpositions: Recent Scholarship on Vodou and Santería Religious Art

Articles, Journal, Books - Resources, Links, Overviews - Museums, Exhibits - Cyber altars, Congregations, Practitioners

Organizations, Institutes - Legal Issues - Music, Dance - Africa, African Diaspora - Afro-Haitian Religion - Afro-Brazilian Religion


Resources, Links, and Overviews


• Santeria, A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic - A guide to ceremonies, orishas, spells, and more.
• Caribbean Religions - An expanding site devoted primarily to Voodoo and Santeria. Includes the Dictionary of Afro-Caribbean Deities.
• Santeria, A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic - Extensive introduction to Santeria.
• Santeria - A large list of links and other materials on Afro-Caribbean religion.
• Culto Sincretico - Links, articles, and images related to Afro-Caribbean religion and culture from a Rice graduate student.
• NRM Links: Santeria - a more academically inclined introduction to Santeria.
• Santeria links - extensive list from alt.religion.orisha
• An Overview of Santeria from the author of SANTERIA, A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic.
• Santeria and Macumba - Introduction to Santeria from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
• Santeria: An outsider's look in - By Riqui Gardner. An introduction to Santeria.
• Gateway to the Usenet group alt.religion.orisha
• Santeria - Short introduction to Santeria. Contains an extensive reading list and other resources.
• Ocha: La Santeria Cubana - Introduction to Santeria (in Italian).
• Yahoo!: Afro-Caribbean Religions - Includes the headings Santeria, Ifa, Voodoo, and Rastafarianism.

Articles, Journal, Books - Resources, Links, Overviews - Museums, Exhibits - Cyber altars, Congregations, Practitioners

Organizations, Institutes - Legal Issues - Music, Dance - Africa, African Diaspora - Afro-Haitian Religion - Afro-Brazilian Religion

Museums and Exhibits


• Ethnographic Museum - Cuban museum featuring Santeria.
• Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire - An extensive on-line catalog of an exhibit first presented at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois in 1994.


Cyber altars, Practitioners, Congregations


• Obatala - a cyber alter for Obatala.
• The House of Life - An ecumenical meeting house for a number of Afro-Latin religions.
• Ijo Orunmila - Spreading Ifa to All of Olodumare's Children. Presented by Fashina Falade, Chief Olubikin of Ile-Ife.
• Egba Lukumi - an organization meant to foster brotherhood among the Lukumi community and promote awareness of its culture, values, principles and traditions.
• Ifa Foundation of North America - Seeking to spread a rational worldview, for the practice of Orisa worship in the Western world. Numerous articles and other resources.
• Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye
• The Organization for Lukumi Unity - Meeting place, chat room, discussion list for practitioners.
  
  Organizations and Institutes
  
  
• Eleggua Project - A cooperative partnership of North American and Cuban non-governmental agencies who share an interest in developing opportunities for academic study in Cuba
• OrishaNet - Perhaps the largest Santeria presence on the Web.
• Organization for Lukumí Unity - Discussion board devoted to the Lukumi Unity project and Ifa/Orisha religious practice.
• The Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute - An arts and cultural organization that celebrates, documents and shares the cultural heritage and spiritual and creative expressions of people from African descent throughout the world.
  
  

  Articles, Journal, Books - Resources, Links, Overviews - Museums, Exhibits - Cyber altars, Congregations, Practitioners

  Organizations, Institutes - Legal Issues - Music, Dance - Africa, African Diaspora - Afro-Haitian Religion - Afro-Brazilian Religion

  Legal Issues
  
  
• Supreme Court decision - Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah.
• Supreme Court decision - Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah. A distinct site.
• Santeria and Animal Sacrifice - from the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center.

Music and Dance

• Cuban Orisha Percussion - Exhibit at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
• Yoruba House - Soul of the African Drum
• Arthur Hall and Ile Ife - African and Afro-Latin dance.
• Afrocuba de Matanzas - article and links for this music and dance group from Matanzas.
• Grupo AFROCUBA de Matanzas - Another website devoted to Afrocuba de Matanzas
  
  Africa and African Diaspora
  
  
• Department of Africana Studies - Links - enormous list of links for Africa and African Diaspora sites from the University of Pittsburgh.
• Yoruba Ethnographic Archive - Ethnographic research on Yoruba history, culture and society in new formats facilitated by CD-ROM and the Web.
• Yoruba Twin Figure Carvings - Thunderchildren: Yoruba Twin Figure Carvings from Nigeria, by George Ulrich.
• Yoruba Overview - Collection of articles from the Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature site at Brown.
• InquiceWeb Main Page - Numerous resources on Kongo derived faiths.
• African Traditional Religions - Extensive Internet resources on African religion.
  
  Afro-Haitian Religion and Culture
  
  
• New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
• African Religion Syncretism - Article comparing Voodoo and Santeria.
• Voodoo - by Mambo Racine Sans But. A series of lessons on the Basics of Voodoo by a practitioner.
• Meaning of "soul" in Vodou - by Richard Hodges. Also published in Material For Thought # 14, November 1995.
• Vodoun Culture - An extensive site, including a complete list Lwas and other resources.
• The Voodoo Religion - Introduction to Vodou from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.
• The Voodoo and Vodou Bookstore - list of Voodoo related titles with one or two-line reviews. Ordering through Amazon.


Afro-Brazilian Religion and Culture


• Ile Axe Opo Afonja - Introduction to Candomble.
• A Religiao dos Orixas - Internet resources on Afro-Brazilian religion and related topics.
• E-Groups: Candomble - Discussion group for Candomble
• OTÁ Afro-Brasil.- An English language newsletter devoted to Candomble.

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