Ashé pa’ todos. Los santeros en México y sus agentes divinos

This study describes how does the everyday religious life work, the network of relationships between the initiated in Afro-Cuban Santeria, as well as those involving themselves and the sacred figures which they worship, represented by the orishas. Far from exhausting the vast wealth of Santeria as a religión vivida the study focuses only on the ceremony of toque de tambor as an illustrative example of the complexity that characterises relationships within the Mexican context, where on the one hand a social regulation exists that prohibits the religious diversity in which Santeria participates, and on the other a dislocation between religious affiliations, practices and beliefs, which denote a deinstitutionalisation of the religious as observed in general in contemporary Latin America.