Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami

Infrastructure and American religion: Sites, methods, and theories for a changing field

“…In defining religion as moving transnationally in “spatial and temporal flows” (p. 3, 6), Tweed offers a helping hand in our search for materials and infrastructures: how do religions travel? For Tweed and the many influential contributors to the volume, the spaces, scales, and geographic parameters that circumscribe the field of American religions (specifically American Religious History) will necessarily feed and reflect its narratives (also see Tweed, 1997a; Tweed, 2005). As we have seen, infrastructure has already played a role in forming but also troubling the assumptions at the heart of those standard narratives.…”

“…Ethnographer Beliso‐de Jesús (2015) makes this explicit in her book, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion . Drawing on the spatial and directional metaphors of Tweed's theory of religion (2005; also see Tweed, 1997a), Beliso‐de Jesús posits that Santería, a form of African‐inspired practice specific to Cuba, has gained a transnational shape through its diasporic network of practitioners, as well as media technologies, ritual objects, kin relationships, and other modes of creative connectivity.…”

“…Ethnographer Beliso-de Jesús (2015) makes this explicit in her book, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion. Drawing on the spatial and directional metaphors of Tweed's theory of religion (2005; also see Tweed, 1997a), Beliso-de Jesús posits that Santería, a form of African-inspired practice specific to Cuba, has gained a transnational shape through its diasporic network of practitioners, as well as media technologies, ritual objects, kin relationships, and other modes of creative connectivity. Adapting Tweed's notion of "flows" and advancing an interpretation of connectivity that runs over and against those proposed by the subjects of Supp-Montgomerie's (2021) book, Beliso-de Jesús discusses transnational Santería as proceeding along a series of caminos, or paths.…”

Re-imagining the place of religion in the workplace: The example of Australian social work

“…Vásquez' and Tweed's foci lie in the global-local nexus and in the transnational connections of diasporic religious communities. Based on his study of a Marian shrine built by Catholic Cubans in Miami, Tweed (1997) distinguishes between three levels in which diasporic religions operate:…”

estudo interdisciplinar de geografia e religião

“…Eles choraram ao me contar sobre suas vidas anteriores na ilha e sorriram ao imaginar seu retorno do exílio. Como argumentei em minha etnografia sobre o santuário, para eles a religião era translocativa, um termo que cunhei para dar sentido ao que descobri durante o trabalho de campo: rituais religiosos, tropos, narrativas, instituições e artefatos os impulsionavam para frente e para trás entre a terra natal e a nova (TWEED, 1997).…”