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My paper analyses practices of “Africanization” and competing constructions of “authentic tradition” within a globalized religious setting in Cuban Santería. It focuses transatlantic ritual exchanges, dealing for instance with gender issues, and discusses its local religious impacts.
My paper analyses practices of "Africanization" and competing constructions of "authentic tradition" within a globalized religious setting in Cuban Santería. I focus on a specific project of ritual innovation headed by one of the most famous cult leaders in the trans-local religious sphere in Cuba. Especially it deals with the female initiation into the cult of Ifá which has caused a broader religious conflict which has to be considered as being highly influenced by global debates on Yoruba Religion as a result of general globalization processes within the larger Yoruba Diaspora. My paper will offer an introduction into recent Cuban debate on this controversially discussed ceremony focusing on religious protagonists. Finally I will link this to a broader transnational debate and issues of gender and women's emancipation within religious practice of Cuban Santería.