This paper seeks to explore the world of Santeria/Lucumi as it is lived in the city of Miami by many of the Afro-Cuban communities. There is a wealth of materials on the world of Yoruba practices in the New World, especially in Cuba and the United States. What seems to be lacking are perspectives that highlight the ways that these religions and cultural practices act as forms of political, social, cultural, and economic forms of resistance to hegemony. Resistance can take on many definitions as can hegemony and it is important that we redefine and re-represent the ways in which people have manipulated their socio-economic and political environments in order to achieve certain objectives. The central focus of this paper is to understand the ways that Miami Afro-Cubans have used their relationships with the Orisha traditions to establish cultural territory, community solidarity, economic footholds, and institutions for education, initiation, and rites of passage in their attempts to achieve individual and group self realization and fulfillment. The paper will also emphasize that it is also theoretically very important to note that the Yoruba traditions themselves are not in any way removed from the people who live them. Hence, it is important to understand the relationships between tradition and daily life as a symbiotic one. The feedback and transforming relationships between tradition and daily lives will be examined in the paper, with emphasis on the practice of Lucumi religion in Miami.