Tis the season of the dead: from Halloween to All Saint's Day, when traditionally Christian societies venerate those who have passed on. But for practitioners of the Afro-Cuban philosophy of Santería, ...

Regla de Ocha-Ifá is a spiritual tradition more commonly known as Santeria, witchcraft, or Regla Lucumi, depending on who you ...

Just when you think you know a lot about Cuban music, along comes a pair of musicians who tell me one that of the major influences on their pioneering jazz/rock/santeria band was Queen. Yes, that ...

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 ...

Santeria rituals allow human beings to stay in contact with the Orishas. They include dancing, drumming, speaking and eating with the spirits. Santeria rituals allow human beings to stay in contact ...

Santeria religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and powerful, but mortal, spirits, called Orishas. The religion focuses on building relationships between human beings and ...