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Devoted to death : Santa Muerte, the skeleton saint /

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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.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0199932530
9780199932535