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March 2020

March 24, 2020

Life and Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the ‘Holy Healer’

‘My name is Death: the last best friend am I’. Robert Southey, 1816 Co-authored by...

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 08, 2019

Mexico’s Patron of Lost Causes – A Photographic Portrait of Saint Jude on His Feast Day

As a specialist in the Mexican religious landscape I had visited the Saint Jude shrine...

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 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 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 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...

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...

January 2019

January 16, 2019

Derrotando al Diablo ¿Que Hay detras del Boom Global del Exorcismo?

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

November 2018

November 21, 2018

‘Narcosaint’ Jesús Malverde Miraculously Materializes at Trial of El Chapo Guzman

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut While many Americans are now familiar...

November 14, 2018

The Knights Templar and Saint Nazario – The Narco-Gospel of a Mexican Drug Cartel

The interminable drug war in Mexico reveals that the lethal mix of religion and terrorism...

October 2018

October 13, 2018

Deciphering the Narcotheology of the Knights Templar Mexican Narcocult

Authored by guest contributor Dr. Kate Kingsbury* - please note this piece is an abbreviated...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

Feasting with the Skeleton Saints of Roggenburg

As a specialist in lived religion much of my memento mori research in Europe this...

July 2018

July 08, 2018

St. Notburga – The Skeleton Saint of Social Justice

I did a double-take upon spying a sharply dressed female skeleton raising a shiny sickle...

June 2018

June 06, 2018

How the Polish Black Madonna Became Haitian Vodou Spirit Erzulie Dantor

By Dr. Kate Kingsbury† and Debra Van Neste* Since time immemorial religions have been born from...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Kiss of Death – Eros and Thanatos in a Barcelona Cemetery

This piece was supposed to be about the Virgin of Montserrat, the Black Matroness of...

May 17, 2018

From Kitchen Saint to Skeleton Saint Rey Pascual – The Bizarre Case of Pascual Bailon

Co-authored by Dr. Andrew Chesnut and Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Guatemalan folk saint Rey Pascual’s foundation...

May 09, 2018

Our Lady of the Bullet as Flak Jacket for Femicide

Surpassed only by Syria in the number of violent deaths in the past decade, Mexico...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Pope Francis Endorses Exorcism as Tool for Combating the Devil

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut For those of us who've been...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Holy Week with Brother Francis and Sister Death at the Shrine of the Black Christ of Esquipulas

During the 19th century in the mountain towns of New Mexico and southern Colorado, Mexican-American...

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