what can you tell me about santeria?

i work with a girl who is in that religion and i like her as a friend...but in order for me to get to really know her i would like to know Wat it is exactly...i was raised in a Jehovah witness household...so if u know what that religion is about u can see my problem

it is some kind of Wicca art...came from an island.

It is a survived African religion that essentially "hid out" disguised within Catholicism, adopting names of saints to stand in for African Krisha's (similar to gods, but not quite).

La Regla DE Lukumi is nothing to mess with unless you are Ifa. It is based on the West African religions brought to the new world by slaves imported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations. These slaves carried with them their own religious traditions including a tradition of possession trance for communicating with the ancestors.

It's a beautiful Afro-Cuban religion that came from African slaves. It involves a lot of spirituality, spirit ism, trance-possession, dance, prayers, masses, song, and tradition. It is NOT Voodoo. It's very popular in Miami. What most people don't know is that all who follow this religion have to be baptized. Therefore, it is not anti-Christian. Also it is monotheistic. There is one God who is praised, and the Orishas (saints) are also praised, but not as Gods.