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- Title
Religion und Raum: Dimensionen religiöser Reterritorialisierung der Santería in Deutschland.
- Authors
de Olmos, Lioba Rossbach
- Abstract
The article deals with Afro-Cuban Santería in Germany and its religious practices developed under diaspora conditions. The aim is to demonstrate that Cuban priest and their multinational following represent a notion of religious space that differs from most of the established religious denominations in Germany. Instead of temples and localized sanctuaries Santería devotees explore and redefine natural and urban spaces relating them to specific deities of the Oricha pantheon in order to make ritual use of them. Since ritual uses of public spaces is uncommon in the host country it provokes misunderstanding or incomprehension as the article demonstrates by means of several empirical examples.
- Subjects
GERMANY; RETERRITORIALIZATION; SANTERIA; PUBLIC spaces; FANS (Persons); RELIGIOUS life; TEMPLES
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2011, Vol 136, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
0044-2666
- Publication type
Article