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  • Devoted to Death

    Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

    by R. Andrew Chesnut ...
    This new third edition of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has become the fastest growing new religious movement worldwide over the past two decades. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions in Latin America, the U.S., and beyond. Devotees believe ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Devoted to Death

    Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

    by R. Andrew Chesnut ...
    R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans and immigrants in the U.S. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Devoted to Death

    Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

    by R. Andrew Chesnut ...
    R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans and immigrants in the U.S. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Competitive Spirits

    Latin America's New Religious Economy

    by R. Andrew Chesnut ...
    For over four centuries the Catholic Church enjoyed a religious monopoly in Latin America in which potential rivals were repressed or outlawed. Latin Americans were born Catholic and the only real choice they had was whether to actively practice the faith. Taking advantage of the legal disestablishment of the Catholic Church between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, Pentecostals almost single ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Devoted to Death

    Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

    by R. Andrew Chesnut ...
    R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans and immigrants in the U.S. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • New Ways of Being Pentecostal in Latin America

    by Martin Lindhardt, Andrew Chesnut, Evguenia Fediakova, Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Henri Gooren, Toomas Gross, Stephen Hunt, Maria das Dores Campos Machado, Bernice Martin, David Martin0, George St Clair1, Jakob Egeris Thorsen2 ...
    The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically transformed Latin America’s religious landscape within the last half century or so. In a region where Catholicism reigned hegemonic for centuries, the expansion of Pentecostalism has now resulted in a situation of religious pluralism and competition, bearing much more resemblance to the United States than to the Iberian motherlands. Furthermore, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    Devoted to Death

    Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, 2nd Edition

    by R. Andrew Chesnut ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint's supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans and immigrants in the US. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Santeria

    African Spirits in America

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  • Mother Tongue

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  • Capoeira

    Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

    by Nestor Capoeira ...
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  • Santa Muerte

    The History, Rituals, and Magic of Our Lady of the Holy Death

    by Tracey Rollin ...
    Santa Muerte is a complete ritual guide to working with this famous and beloved Mexican folk saint.Death welcomes everyone. This is the foundation for the veneration of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death." Considered to be the female personification of death, she is associated with protection and safe passage to the afterlife. She is also the patron saint of people who live on the fringes of society and ... Read more

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