La Santa Muerte and Her Interventions in Human Affairs: a Theological Discussion
This article focuses upon the popular devotion for la Santa Muerte that emerged in Mexico and is gaining a rapid increase in notoriety in the country and abroad. The first sections reconstruct in detail its protean manifestations, as well as the interpretations contained in extant scholarly investig...
| Published in: | Sophia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2016]
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| In: |
Sophia
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
Folk saints
B Miracles B Death B Mexico B Santa Muerte B Thomas Aquinas B Supernatural and preternatural |
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| Summary: | This article focuses upon the popular devotion for la Santa Muerte that emerged in Mexico and is gaining a rapid increase in notoriety in the country and abroad. The first sections reconstruct in detail its protean manifestations, as well as the interpretations contained in extant scholarly investigations, popular Mexican press and other texts. The final section, adopting a fine-grained, theological-epistemological viewpoint argues that la Santas interventions in human affairs, essential to explain her popularity, although usually described as miracles can be better understood as parosa term employed by devotees in order to define the end of a situation, usually unpleasant or unfavourable. It is also argued that a careful examination of such paros provides us with deeper insights into the devotions success and resiliency. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-015-0494-9 |