Abstract
In Cuba, New Age and Neo-Pagan healing and spiritual practices (reiki, so-called groups of meditation and « energy », neo-shamanism, wicca, etc.) are today appropriated in connection with endogenous practices. Considering that Afro-Cuban religions are historical instances of religious syncretism, one might be tempted to see there no more than a contemporary extension of their internal workings. However, contrasted ethnographical cases reveal that such a perspective occults the diversity and complexity of the processes at stake. While New Age elements do crystallize in a syncretic integration within Afro-Cuban rituals, the dynamics at work also result in the parallel production of apparent local, (Afro-)Cuban, forms of the New Age that not only enacts forms of cultural “indigenization” but also displays a puzzling, concomitant “exogenization” (or self-exoticization) of local referents.