Challenges the reader in provocative new ways. Points to the salient call to action presented by local Santeria and Espiritismo arts, ritual, performance, and other cultural forms in addressing core questions of history, legacy, and new beginnings. Suzanne Preston Blier, author of Royal Arts of Africa

A much needed study of the manner in which the religious art of women is a fundamental dimension of Afro-Cuban religious ritual, both in the public and private spheres. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, author of Afro-Cuban Theology

From a plantation in Havana Province in...