Afro-Cuban Religious Arts : Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería / Kristine Juncker.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Afro-Cuban Religious Arts; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography and Naming; Introduction; 1 Religious Pluralism and the Afro-Cuban Ritual-Arts Movement, 1899-1969; 2 Tiburcia and the Nested Spaces of Afro-Cuban Ritual Arts, 1861-1938; 3 Hortensia and Iluminada: Afro-Cuban Ritual Altars at the Crossroads; 4 Iluminada and Carmen: Arts of Historical Desire in 1950s and 1960s Spanish Harlem; Conclusion: Afro-Atlantic Arts and the Popular Sublime; Appendix: Food for the Oricha; Notes; Bibliography.

This book profiles four generations of women from one Afro-Cuban religious family. From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1890s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, these women were connected by their prominent roles as leaders in the religions they practiced and the dramatic ritual artwork they created. Each woman was a medium in Espiritismo-communicating with dead ancestors for guidance or insight-and also a santera, or priest of Santería, who could intervene with the oricha pantheon. Kristine Juncker argues that, by creating art for more than one religion, these wome.

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