Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint

2020/09/11 by Kate Kingsbury, R. Andrew Chesnut · 2 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Art #Art history #Coping (psychology) #Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) #Crime, Deviance, and Social Control #Ethnology #History #Indigenous #Infectious disease (medical specialty) #Medicine #Pandemic #Patron saint #Philosophy #Plague (disease) #Prayer #Psychedelics and Drug Studies #Psychology #Religious studies #SAINT #Saint petersburg #Sociology

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Citations

• How did Death become a Saint in Mexico?
• Mother of Death, Mother of Rebirth
• Un culte populaire au Mexique : la Santa Muerte
• Not Just a Narcosaint: Santa Muerte as Matron Saint of the Mexican Drug War
• Death is Women’s Work: Santa Muerte, a Folk Saint and Her Female Followers
• Santa Muerte : Sainte Matronne de l’amour et de la mort
• 4 Epidemiology of the Black Death and Successive Waves of Plague

Cited by

• Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage
• Santa Muerte [wikipedia]