2007, Paul Allatson,Key Terms in Latino/a: Cultural and Literary Studies,page209:
Santería is the name for an Afro-Cuban religious and belief system with origins in the slave era. The survival ofsantería over many centuries required adherents to conduct their ceremonies and rituals away from the gaze of European slave owners and the Catholic Church.
2008, Rosemary Ellen Guiley,Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, and Wicca,page311:
Although all worshipers ofSantería could be called Santeros, the term usually refers to the priests or priestesses.
2009,Diarmaid MacCulloch,A History of Christianity, Penguin, published2010, page713:
Santería is probably the variety of these syncretist religions closest to Catholicism, so that in Cuban Catholicism it is difficult to separate much Catholic practice in the parish churches fromSantería, and it is really impossible to put statistics on the number of its practitioners, so all-pervasive is its influence.
2010, Vek Lewis,Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America,page119:
Denied her sex by biology, Sandra finds the powers of spiritual transformation in gender insantería, a transcultural religious practice with Catholic elements.
2010, Pedro C. López,Pandemic of Lies: The Exile,page248:
Anyway, getting back to the proof of the pudding, I'm sure you will admit that there is something about the supernatural world, in which I include voodoo andsantería.
