Cuba News News Cuba » Religion: Our Lady of the exile : diasporic religion at a Cuban Catholic shrine in Miami / Thomas A. Tweed
1. The Virgin's Exile: The Cuban Patroness and the Diaspora in Miami -- 2. Santeria, Catholicism, and Evangelization: Struggles for Religious Identity -- 3. Diverse Devotees, Plural Practices, and ...
News Cuba » Religion: A Brief History of the Enduring American Embargo against Cuba
For more than 60 years, the US Government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing ...
News Cuba » Religion: SECCA examines Cuban culture through art
Cuba was inhabited by various Mesoamerican cultures before to the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Then, Cuba became a Spanish colony, ruled by a Spanish governor in Havana. It gained formal ...
News Cuba » Religion: Cuban literature in the age of black insurrection Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino religion Matthew Pettway
"Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both ...
News Cuba » Religion: Texting Afro-Atlantic Tales: The Production and Circulation of Ritual Narratives in Afro-Cuban Libretas
Textual Cultures, Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Issue: Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, and Responsibility (Fall 2024), pp. 194-218 (25 pages) This article explores two forms of under-examined Afro-Cuban ...