Cuban Espiritismo de Cordón

Record summary

Espiritismo de Cordón is a Cuban spiritist healing tradition associated with circles, rhythmic movement, prayer, trance, mediums, and collective ritual, especially in eastern Cuba. It developed amid nineteenth-century spiritism, Catholic practice, Afro-Cuban traditions, and local healing cultures. It matters for comparison because its ritual form is highly identifiable yet historically layered, allowing research into transmission, medical interpretation, and state or church responses. Terminology and practice vary among groups, and historical origins are not reducible to Allan Kardec’s European texts.