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

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Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and frequently dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are swiftly winning adherents the world over. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term “copresence” to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, through which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, and non secular 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 Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence within the lives of Santería practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and non secular shuttle. Santería’s spirits, deities, and practitioners allow digital technologies for use in new ways, inciting unique encounters through video and other media. Eliminating traditional perceptions of Santería as a static, localized practice or as a part of a mythologized “past,” this book emphasizes the religion’s dynamic circulations and calls for nontranscendental understandings of religious transnationalisms.

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