Initiated wearing the Santeria
priesthood at the age of seven, Raul Canizares unveils in Cuban
Santeria the secret and seductive world of this brief growing, yet
generally misunderstood, Afro-Cuban religion. Sooner than the knowledge of an insider and the knowledge of a scholar, Canizares thoughtfully examines the practice of Santeria, divulging lots of its subterranean part while at the same time technique a attractive journal of its primary textured mix of African, Cuban, and Catholic traditions.
The Cuban-born author
describes the practices and rituals of the cronies of Santeria--from magical herbal pills and healing to spiritism and animal
sacrifice--and explains how for lots being the religion has been
maintained under the guise of Catholicism to evade clerical
irritation. Peak initiates are sworn to a syllabus of shut up, but
Canizares believes that the time has come to move Santeria, a religion of beauty and enthusiasm, out of the murkiness and wearing the light so that a patronizing on target picture of this inside tradition can go up.
