Abstract

RABAZA TORRES, Manuel de Jesús. Is the Traditional Nigerian Ifá a New Religious Movement or a Theological New Tendency in Cuba?. UH [online]. 2019, n.288, pp.42-64.  Epub Sep 10, 2019. ISSN 0253-9276.

The present paper it contributes to give answer to one of the most attractive investigation problems for the Cubans social sciences of the contemporaneousness. Is Traditional Nigerian Ifá (TNI) a Religious New Movement (RNM) or a Theological New Tendency (TNT) in Cuba? But also, it offers a series of arguments that converges to settle the existent differences among the practitioners of the tendencies Nigerian and Cuban of Ifá in the Island, generating divergences that conspire against the unit and the social cohesion, as well as against the culture and the cultural Cuban identity.

Keywords : Ifá; Religious New Movements; Traditional Nigerian Ifá; Theological New Tendency.

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