Andrew Chesnut and Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, is the heart of the fastest growing new religious movement in the Americas and the West. Andrew Chesnut is our guest who shares his research on the topic. Chesnut is Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012), the first academic study of this topic in in English.

R. Andrew Chesnut: https://vcu.academia.edu/AndrewChesnut

"Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint": https://www.amazon.com/Devoted-Death-Santa-Muerte-Skeleton/dp/0199764654/

Additional resources on Santa Muerte: https://skeletonsaint.com/

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