The Scythe and the Pentagram: Santa Muerte from Folk Catholicism to Occultism
Religions December 22, 2016 Manon Hedenborg White, Fredrik Gregorius 41 citations
Santa Muerte is establishing a presence among practitioners of contemporary occultism in Europe and North America. The occult milieu is highly different from the Mexican cult of Santa Muerte, having a strong heritage of secrecy and tradition as social capital and being mostly middle-class in orientation. Nonetheless, this Catholic folk saint with a mostly pragmatic, popular, and grassroots cult...
DOI: 10.3390/rel8010001 (opens in new tab)
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