Bob Doto reviewed A Year in White by C. Lynn Carr
Read if interested in Lukumi
The book on the cultural outsider experience for practitioners of Lukumi spirituality.
227 pages
English language
Published Dec. 24, 2015
C. Lynn Carr: A year in white (2015)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8135-7119-5
- OCLC Number:
- 936219333
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"In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition - more commonly known in the United States as Santería - entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices - called iyawo - endure a host of restrictions, including most notably wearing exclusively white clothing. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who underwent this initiation herself, opens a window on this remarkable year-long religious transformation."
"In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition - more commonly known in the United States as Santería - entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices - called iyawo - endure a host of restrictions, including most notably wearing exclusively white clothing. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who underwent this initiation herself, opens a window on this remarkable year-long religious transformation."
Subjects
- Training of
- Priests
- Santeria
- Priesthood
Places
- United States