A Year In White: Cultural Newcomers To Lukumi And Santer?a In The United States - 9780813571195

In Santer?a, entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr--who underwent this initiation herself--offers a wealth of insight into this remarkable year-long religious transformation. Carr draws on in-depth interviews, many online surveys, and nearly a decade of her own ethnographic fieldwork, shedding light not only on Santer?a, but on religion in general.

• | Author: C. Lynn Carr
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Body, Mind & Spirit
• | ISBN-10: 0813571197
• | ISBN-13: 9780813571195