R Andrew Chesnut

Broschiertes Buch

Devoted to Death

Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

Beschreibung

This new third edition of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has become the fastest growing new religious movement worldwide over the past two decades. Santa Muerte has become the patron saint of drug traffickers. Yet, the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) plays other important roles: she is a supernatural healer, love doctor, money-maker, lawyer, and angel of death. Santa Muerte statuettes and paraphernalia now outsell those of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Saint Jude, making her without doubt one of the most popular and powerful saints of both the Latin American and American religious landscapes.

Autor

Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut is Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor and Director of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of the first academic book in English and several other languages on the folk saint of death-- Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy, and Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780197769133
• ISBN-10: 0197769136
• Artikelnr.: 73665526