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Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
Folklore, 2014In Devoted to Death, R. Andrew Chesnut, the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, addresses an inherently intriguing topic: the burgeoning devotion t...
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La Santa Muerte: estigma e intercambio
Revista M. Estudos sobre a morte, os mortos e o morrer, 2019Este ensayo ofrece una perspectiva antropológica sobre la expansión reciente del culto de la Santa Muerte, a partir de un análisis de tres dimensiones: el manejo diverso de las marcas de la Santa Muerte como estigma; la distinción entre formas fuertes y débiles del culto, a partir de la naturaleza del pacto y lazo que se crea entre devotos y deidad; y ...
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In recent decades the cult of Santa Muerte has become a remarkable phenomenon in Mexico's popular religious landscape, from where it has migrated abroad. Due to the uncommon iconography of the robed skeleton and the association with criminality, the Santa Muerte cult has been the object of public controversy.
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For chapter 6, we move to Mexico, where F. Grijalva-Maza exposes the ways in which the triangulation of power between the Mexican government and military, media, along with the Catholic Church have tried to marginalize and bury Santa Muerte, who is the personification of death in the female form.
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Autoethnography of Holy Death: Belief, Dividuality, and Family in the Study of Santa Muerte
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2022Kate
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El culto a la Santa Muerte: religiosidad popular 2.0
2016El culto a la Santa Muerte ha tenido un gran crecimiento durante la última década; tanto en México como en otros países se le considera como una religión popular. Su estudio se proyecta también en la esfera virtual a través del uso de Internet por parte de los devotos de esta imagen a partir de la(s) utilización(es) de esta herramienta, de la ...
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Not Just a Narcosaint: Santa Muerte as Matron Saint of the Mexican Drug War
International Journal of Latin American Religions, 2020Kate
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