Devoted to death : Santa Muerte, the skeleton saint /

R. Andrew Chesnut offers a portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees in the past 8 years. As a personification of death, the Grim Reapress has become one of the most popular and powerful saints on both the Mexican and American religious landscapes.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Chesnut, R. Andrew
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Death > Religious aspects. Death (Personification) Grim Reaper (Symbolic character) Mexico > Religious life and customs. Mort > Aspect religieux. Mort (Personnification) Faucheuse (Personnage symbolique) Death > Religious aspects Mexico Electronic books.
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