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December 2022

December 09, 2022

Mestiza Madonna: 16 Fascinating Facts on Virgin of Guadalupe

Mexicans will tell you that they are 90 percent Catholic but 100 percent Guadalupan. While...

October 2022

October 14, 2022

Mexico’s Death Trio: La Catrina, Day of Dead, Santa Muerte

Co-authored by Professor Andrew Chesnut, Dr. Kate Kingsbury*, and Mr. David B. Metcalfe** The season...

September 2022

September 09, 2022

From Bloody Heretic to Catholic Saint – The Beatification of Brazilian Folk Saint Padre Cicero

Beatification News by Eduardo Lima In a country where people have revered folk religious figures...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

Emerald Eyes and Tears of Blood – The Unusual Advocations of the Christ Child in Mexico

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Those who aren't Catholic or familiar...

January 2022

January 03, 2022

Foreword to the French Edition of “Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint”

By Dr. Kate Kingsbury* We are living in a time of much death, or what...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

Meet the Mexican Death Trinity – Day of the Dead, Catrina Calavera and Santa Muerte

The season of death is upon us. October is here impending Halloween with its cavalcade...

September 2021

September 03, 2021

The Good Death Resurrected – Memento Mori and Santa Muerte as Spirit of the Times

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Professor R. Andrew Chesnut Having spent the past decade...

August 2021

August 18, 2021

Holy Hellraisers – Meet the Thug Saints of Venezuela

By Guest Contributor Marvin J. Mijares* Since I can remember, I have heard of people...

May 2021

May 11, 2021

Sacking the Saints – Pentecostal Persecution of Religious Rivals in Brazil

Co-authored by Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut One of the lamentable...

March 2021

March 20, 2021

Mushroom Mysticism and the Paschal Mystery

By guest contributor Dr. Robert Chesnut* I was working on my divinity degree at Harvard...

October 2020

October 21, 2020

Mexico’s Dames and Days of Death – Santa Muerte, Catrina Calavera and Dia de los Muertos

Jointly authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury*, David B. Metcalfe**, and Dr. Andrew Chesnut The season...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

Colonizing Death -American Evangelist Crusades Against Santa Muerte at Landmark Shrine in Tepito

By Dr. Kate Kingsbury and Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut Since what is now the...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

‘God’s Battle Axe and Weapon of War’ – The African Pentecostalism of Trump’s COVID Doctor, Pastor Stella Immanuel

Co-authored by Dr. Andrew Chesnut and Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Glaringly absent from most of the...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

Dr. Kate Kingsbury Pens Foreword to Turkish Edition of “Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint”

First published by Oxford University Press in 2012 with the second edition in 2017, my...

June 14, 2020

The New Pentecostal Inquisition in Latin America – Guatemalan Maya Spiritual Guide Burned at Stake for Witchcraft

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut It's Brazil that's been in the...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

Leading Santa Muerte Expert Interviewed on the Fastest Growing New Religious Movement in the West

What prompted your interest in the Santa Muerte phenomena?* I am a specialist in the...

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Pachamama as Lightning Rod of Division over the Papacy of Pope Francis

Pachamama has become the latest lightning rod of division in the Catholic Church. She is...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Catholic Cartels? Ovidio Guzman and the Narco-Saints of Mexico

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Professor Andrew Chesnut A widely circulated photo of Ovidio...

October 11, 2019

Competing for Amazonian Souls – The Amazon Synod and Pentecostal Competition in the Global South

By Professor Andrew Chesnut and Doctor Kate Kingsbury* While the Catholic Church adopts a preferential...

October 01, 2019

Mexican Folk Saint Santa Muerte – The Fastest Growing New Religious Movement in the West

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Santa Muerte, Saint Death and Holy...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Pentecostal Gangs in Rio de Janeiro Ratchet Up Their Persecution of Afro-Brazilian Religions under President Bolsonaro

Co-authored by Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Brazilian history since the...

August 16, 2019

Holy Child of Raffles – The Mexican Christ Child Asleep on a Skull

Having researched the Mexican skeleton saint Santa Muerte for the past decade I am quite...

July 2019

July 09, 2019

Brazil’s Black Supernatural Sister Queens: Our Lady of Aparecida and Oxum

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In a country with the world’s...

July 09, 2019

Brazil’s Black Sister Supernatural Queens – Oxum and Our Lady of Aparecida

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In a country with the world’s...

April 2019

April 28, 2019

Spirits of the Times – Research Team Kingsbury and Chesnut Discuss the Global Exorcism Boom

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut As of the past few decades,...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

Supplicating Santa Muerte: Fierce Female Folk Saint as Source of Empowerment for Mexican Indigenous Women

By Kate Kingsbury The Mexican State’s relationship with the region of Oaxaca, is tenuous, unlike...

March 15, 2019

The Sensational Saints of Folklore Thursday

Folklore Thursday is one of my favorite twitter accounts, which true to its name curates...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

La Iglesia Mexicana Reprende al Santo Niño Huachicolero, Patrono de los Ladrones de Gasolina, Como Peor que la Santa Muerte

Co-autoria por la Dra. Kate Kingsbury* y el Dr. Andrew Chesnut. Traducido del ingles por la...

February 09, 2019

Mexican Church Rebukes Holy Child of Huachicolero, Patron Saint of Gas Thieves, as Worse than Santa Muerte

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut He only appeared two years ago...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Brazilian President-Elect Jair Messias Bolsonaro as Messiah for Evangelicals and Conservative Catholics

Co-authored by Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Two factors were decisive...

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