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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...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

Praying to Godmother Death – New Evidence of Santa Muerte Venerated as ‘Comadre Sebastiana’ in 19th-Century New Mexico

During the second half of the 19th century in the mountain towns of New Mexico...

November 2018

November 01, 2018

Exorcising Mictecacihuatl – The Origins of Day of the Dead in Mexico

Co-authored by Dr. Andrew Chesnut and David Metcalfe* In the U.S., the Catholic festival of...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

The Virgin of Guadalupe – Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas

The Virgin of Guadalupe (official title: Our Lady of Guadalupe; in Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe)...

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 01, 2018

Is Western Europe Still Christian?

By Dr. Jakob Egeris Thorsen* The Pew Forum has published a report focusing on the...

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...

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