Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization of the Orisha Religion in Africa and the New World (Nigeria, Cuba and the United States).

The article focuses on the deterritorialization and reterritorialization of the Orisha religion in Africa, Nigeria, Cuba and the United States. There is a relationship between religion and territory in the Oyo empire in the West Africa. The paper looks at Orisha worship became established in Cuba. It did not disappear, but became a religion of slaves, and this transplantation provides a good illustration of the dialectal relations between civilization and society. The paper focuses on the introduction of Santeria into the U.S. and its development there. With Cuban emigration to the United States, other type of relationship between civilization and the society have been established. Santeria is recontextualized in a multicultural society segmented into communities. It has also penetrated the black American community. Santeria can be defined as a system of local cults whose essential element related to the adoration of the Santo, i.e. the original deity born of syncretism between African and Catholic beliefs. Santerism arose from the association of spiritism and Santeria produced in the centers of Puerto Rican spiritism in New York. Santerismo has smuggled in some practices of Orisha worship while still likening it to dangerous witchcraft.