Andrew Chesnut
Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut is Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor and Director of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of the first academic book in English on the fastest growing New Religious Movement in the Americas - Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (OUP, 2012, 2017 & 2025), with translations in Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Turkish), Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy (OUP, 2003) and Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (Rutgers University Press,1997) as well as numerous book chapters, journal articles and scores of media interviews.
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This devotion even crosses borders, since according to religious studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, Santa Muerte is also venerated in addition to Mexico in:
Guatemala
Honduras
The Savior
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Brazil
USA
Vea el video aqui https://www.adn40.mx/internacional/estos-paises-mas-devotos-santa-muerte
This devotion even crosses borders, since according to religious studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, Santa Muerte is also venerated in addition to Mexico in:
Guatemala
Honduras
The Savior
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Brazil
USA
Vea el video aqui https://www.adn40.mx/internacional/estos-paises-mas-devotos-santa-muerte
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress sponsored this two-day symposium in 2011. Presentations focused on the history of literatura de cordel, a form of popular literature from northeastern Brazil, as well as accompanying traditions. These include the composition of poems, lyrics, and stories; the creation of woodblock images; and performances inspired by literatura de cordel. My talk starts at 1:58 https://guides.loc.gov/brazil-country-guide/digital-collections
Ensayo pluridisciplinario sobre varios cultos e imagenes de la Santa Muerte en México y el en mundo.
só revelaremos a importância da religião para lidar com as pandemias, mas também focaremos na noção da morte como curandeira e como doadora de vida. Nós descolonizaremos
o conhecimento da Santa Morte e exploraremos as origens sincréticas da santa, vindo não apenas da Ceifadora europeia dos tempos de peste, mas também da epistemologia tanatológica indígena mexicana – que explica seus poderes duplos de presentear a vida e distribuir
a morte.
L’autore offre un affascinante ritratto della Santa Muerte, un santo scheletro il cui culto ha attratto milioni di devoti negli ultimi dieci anni. Sebbene condannati dalle chiese tradizionali, i poteri soprannaturali di questa santa popolare fanno appello a milioni di latinoamericani e immigrati negli Stati Uniti. I devoti credono che essa sia la più veloce ed efficace operatrice di miracoli, superando addirittura la Vergine di Guadalupe. Chesnut mostra come la Santa Muerte sia diventata la patrona dei narcotrafficanti, svolgendo un ruolo importante come protettrice dei venditori ambulanti di crystal meth e marijuana. La Santa Muerte è inoltre guaritrice soprannaturale, dottore dell’amore, produttrice di denaro, avvocato e angelo della morte, ed è senza dubbio una delle sante più popolari e potenti nel panorama religioso messicano e americano.
We are living in a time of much death, or what Mexicans might call mala muerte, bad death. Not only due to the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic that has beset our world but also, in Mexico and elsewhere, due to the increased precarity created by pandemic conditions.
Estudio riguroso y global acerca de las diversas manifestaciones de la religión en América Latina. A lo largo de sus casi cien entradas, el Diccionario de Religiones en América Latina da cuenta de las distintas maneras en que se viven las prácticas, doctrinas, rituales, cultos y experiencias religiosas en diferentes puntos de América Latina. En ese sentido, el análisis abarca aspectos que confluyen inminentemente con la religión, tales como la política, la historia y la cultura de los diferentes pueblos latinoamericanos.
Chesnut explores the general effects of a free market, such as introduction of consumer taste and product specialization, and shows how they have played out in the Latin American context. He notes, for example, that women make up the majority of the religious consumer market, and explores how the three groups have developed to satisfy women's tastes and preferences. Moving beyond the Pentecostal boom and the rise and fall of liberation theology, Chesnut provides a fascinating portrait of the Latin American religious landscape.
“On one level she’s very Mexican. But on another level, since she’s death herself, she knows no borders or frontiers,” according to Chesnut."
evangélicos) ha sido tan fuerte que este país tiene hoy la mayor población pentecostal del planeta. ¡Por encima incluso de Estados Unidos!", declaró a la AFP Andrew Chesnut, director de Estudios Católicos en la Virginia Commonwealth University de Estados Unidos.
Mientras que Andrew Chesnut, director de estudios católicos de la Universidad Virginia Commonwealth, dijo que la referencia del papa era “una clara alusión” a la también conocida como “Niña blanca”, que “es vista por la iglesia como la santa patrona de los narcos y los líderes de la Santa Muerte son percibidos como charlatanes que comercializan la imagen de la muerte para sacar provecho”.
In an interview with BBC News Brasil, Chesnut listed 5 factors that help to better understand this subject: 1. the ideological cohesion of evangelicals, which facilitates political articulations; 2. the fact that the rites of evangelical churches are more “consistent” with aspects of the people’s culture; 3. the adoption of less rigid rules for the training of priests, allowing greater inclusion in the poorest classes. A noticia original em portugues https://agazetadoamapa.com.br/jornal-tribuna-no-805-04-08-2024/
"La diferencia es que muchas veces en Estados Unidos o en Europa el satanismo es algo en lo que realmente ellos no creen en un diablo verdadero, es algo más abstracto, pero en este caso de México y pues en casi todos los países latinoamericanos la gran diferencia es sí el diablo, el Angelito Negro es una figura real igual a la Santa Muerte, Dios y los santos", explicó en entrevista con MILENIO el doctor en Historia de América Latina, Andrew Chesnut.
https://www.milenio.com/politica/comunidad/angelito-negro-culto-diablo-abre-paso-mexico
On June 2, Mexico goes to the polls for the presidential elections and the campaigns are in full swing. Morena Party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum is comfortably leading in the polls with more than half of the votes – but a new campaign statement could threaten that lead.
In each episode we take a deep dive into the border crisis to find the primary players behind the violence, the scope of these transnational criminal enterprises, and the state of the narco wars.
In this episode, host Vince ‘Rocoo’ Vargas, takes a deep dive into the Santa Muerte religious movement. Listen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DY6fbhofnw
We'll be talking about all things associated with and about Santa Muerte ....the Saint of Holy Death. Listen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LieHSlZVL0g
Chesnut is the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and a professor of religious studies in the School of World Studies in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has researched and published extensively on Latin American folk religions, especially the cult of Santa Muerte, as well as on the practice of exorcism in both the Catholic and the Pentecostal traditions. Listen here https://uscatholic.org/articles/202310/glad-you-asked-what-is-an-exorcism/
Joining me is Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut to discuss Santa Muerte, offering a fascinating portrayal of the 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 in the U.S. Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest and most effective miracle worker, and as such, her statuettes and paraphernalia now outsell those of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Saint Jude, two other giants of Mexican religiosity.
Andrew is the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of the first academic book in English on the fastest growing New Religious Movement in the Americas - Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (OUP, 2012 & 2017), with translations in Spanish, Polish, French, Italian, and Turkish), Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy (OUP, 2003) and Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (Rutgers University Press,1997) as well as numerous book chapters, journal articles and scores of media interviews. https://worldstudies.vcu.edu/director..
En este episodio estrenamos sección por cortesía de nuestro amigo y colaborador Miguel Royo, "Al otro lado del charco".
En ella nos hablará de curiosidades, misterios y temas interesantes relacionados con Estados Unidos y México y América Latina.
E inauguramos la sección por todo lo alto con un invitado de excepción, el Dr. en Historia de América Latina Andrew Chesnut y profesor de profesor de estudios religiosos en la Virginia Commonwealth University de Richmond, Virginia.
Astral Guest – Dr. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, and Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Listen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76K-jcujXVo