First Impressions # 96: Media, Race, and Sexuality in Transnational Santería

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Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Electric Santeria: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion, Columbia University Press, 2015, 304 pages, $32.00.

Santería, as a site of analytical inquiry, disrupts many of dominant theoretical approaches to the study of transnational religion. Kristian Petersen talks with Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Associate Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School, about her new book Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion.