Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of

Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Gender, Theory, and Religion)

SanterÂa 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 JesÂºs introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of SanterÂa, 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 JesÂºs traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of SanterÂa practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel. SanterÂa'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 SanterÂa 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.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231173179
ReleaseDate 2015-08-18

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231173179
ReleaseDate	2015-08-18

Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Gender, Theory, and Religion)

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