This lecture by Jonathan de Oleo Ramos will focus on "El Gagá," a religious cult practiced in the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries. Many interpret "El Gagá" as an expression of folklore and Carnival, but it is more than that. It is a set of rural socio-religious relations linked to sugarcane mills on the island of Santo Domingo. It is also the synthesis of cults such as Voodoo, spiritualism, "Santería," and Catholicism.