EL SINCRETISMO ENTRE LA VIRGEN DE LAS MERCEDES Y ÜBATALÁ EN LA SANTERÍA CUBANO-VENEZOLANA.

Resumen

Like ali the specific pastoral of the Latín American Church, the Venezuelan prison Pastoral faces the challenge of inter-religious dialogue. This study seeks the understanding of the phenomena of the syncretism between devotion to the Virgen de las Mercedes and Obbatalá, typical of the Cubano-Venezolana Santería cult. lt addresses the issue as one of the popular religiosidades lives the Venezuelan people a choice of double religious affiliation; penetrates it from the phenomenology of religion criteria and studies itas a pre lude to the definition of pastoral fines on this subject.