Religious beliefs normally follow people as they migrate, including people who are forced to migrate. The people forced to migrate to the western Hemisphere during the slave-trading period carried their beliefs and belief systems to the diaspora of their new world. The Santeria religion, also know as LucumÃ, is a belief system that originated in Africa later brought to the Americas and is still practiced in widely separated communities of the western hemisphere. Marta Moreno Vega, a Santeria Priestess, and university professor in New York City is the author of âThe Alter of My Soul.â Her book is a story of the Santeria or Lucumà religion, its traditions, how they were brought from Africa and are practiced now. I spoke with Marta Moreno Vega by phone in November of 2000, and we began when I asked her to tell us about the Santeria religion and how it differs from other religions.
Marta Morena Vega recommends âFace of The Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americans,â by Robert F. Thompson.
Originally Broadcast: November 7, 2000
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