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Book Synopsis Devoted to Death by : R. Andrew Chesnut
Download or read book Devoted to Death written by R. Andrew Chesnut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. In particular, Chesnut shows Santa Muerte has become the patron saint of drug traffickers, playing an important role as protector of peddlers of crystal meth and marijuana; DEA agents and Mexican police often find her altars in the safe houses of drug smugglers. Yet Saint Death plays other important roles: she is a supernatural healer, love doctor, money-maker, lawyer, and angel of death. She has become without doubt one of the most popular and powerful saints on both the Mexican and American religious landscapes.
Download or read book Santa Muerte written by Tracey Rollin and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 often face violence and death. In recent years her constituency has expanded to include the LGBT community and people who are marginalized or whose jobs put them at significant risk of death such as military and police personnel. Santa Muerte is hailed as their potent and powerful protector, capable of delivering them from harm and even granting miracles. Santa Muerte is a complete ritual guide to working with this famous--and infamous!--Mexican folk saint. It takes us beyond the sensational headlines to reveal the truth about why Santa Muerte is so beloved by so many. Author Tracey Rollin presents simple, straightforward methods for working with Holy Death that may be used alone or easily incorporated into your own magical practice.
Author :Charles River Charles River Editors Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781542467490 Total Pages :42 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (674 download)
Book Synopsis The Santa Muerte by : Charles River Charles River Editors
Download or read book The Santa Muerte written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts and descriptions of the cult *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading European and American scholars are fascinated by her. She is exotic; they look at her with the romantic look of the anthropologist and the sociologist; she is Mexican, colorful, and third-worldly (not to mention that she is a fantastic reason to get funding from their universities). Many see in her, correctly, a prodigious syncretism, so common in the troubled history of Latin America. The Catholic hierarchy, the predominant religion in Mexico, is horrified; the church calls her a satanic cult figure, associated with organized crime. Similarly, governmental authorities watch cautiously, deny official recognition to her "churches," and destroy her solitary shrines in northern Mexico, in roads riddled with crime. However, among her followers -besides prisoners, drug traffickers and many well-meaning men and women seeking other spiritual alternatives- there are some working on the side of the law, especially soldiers and police officers. Enter La Santa Muerte, the "Holy Death," a skeletal figure dressed like a Catholic saint, whom her faithful raised to the altars without asking anyone for permission. From her followers, she gets not only candles, prayers and petitions, as any other saint; they also call her loving names that to the outside observer would seem to be a joke: beautiful, skinny, cute girl, little mother, and at the height of the confusion, "virgin." What then is the Santa Muerte movement? As a practice, it has borrowed extensively from Catholicism, Santeria and even New Age, depending on the leader of the moment and the region, from Central America to Chicago. In the variety most similar to Catholicism, people find images of the skeleton dressed in a green robe with stars and golden borders, with rays of light coming out of her head: a negative image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. "It's our little mother, our skinny, she always takes care of us," says an anonymous woman who refers to Santa Muerte in the same way Mexican Catholics refer to The Virgin. Although fleshless, Santa Muerte is, without a doubt, a female figure (in the Spanish language, "death" is a feminine noun). But the garments of the Virgin of Guadalupe are not the only thing that the "white girl" borrowed. In fact, one of the main features of this cult is its extraordinary elasticity. It will adapt to anything. Anyone can dogmatize. Everybody contributes according to his or her feelings and experiences. Young cholos (street punks) prefer a version more reminiscent of some Iron Maiden albums, and the elderly of the Tepito neighborhood, another more similar to those found at small town churches, with flowers in her hair, and a robe with embroidery. Therefore, for the casual observer watching the candles, the flowers, listening to the murmur of prayers and noticing the insistence on receiving miracles, Santa Muerte is like another Catholic saint, despite the fact the cult of the Holy Death is not only not approved by any Christian denomination but is not even tolerated. This is the story of Santa Muerte, the so-called cult of crisis, a red-hot combo of a kermesse (Mexican carnival), Catholicism and New Age; a hedonist practice but involving bodily sacrifice too. It is an expression of economic, psychological and social forces, bigger than perhaps any of her acolytes suspect. The Santa Muerte: The Origins, History, and Secrets of the Mexican Folk Saint looks at the folk saint and the manner in which her cult grew. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Santa Muerte like never before.
Book Synopsis Secrets of Santa Muerte by : Cressida Stone
Download or read book Secrets of Santa Muerte written by Cressida Stone and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2022 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a practical handbook on how to connect with the mysterious Mexican folk saint of death. Drawing from authentic Mexican sources and traditions, it details secret, esoteric knowledge that will allow for a deep connection with the Saint of Death. The book covers the fascinating history of this revered folk saint, as well as prayers, spells, and rituals for a wide range of needs"--
Book Synopsis La Santa Muerte in Mexico by : Wil G. Pansters
Download or read book La Santa Muerte in Mexico written by Wil G. Pansters and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in people's daily lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with illicit activities.
Book Synopsis Grimoire of Santa Muerte by : Sophia DiGregorio
Download or read book Grimoire of Santa Muerte written by Sophia DiGregorio and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grimoire of Santa Muerte is an introductory manual for devotees of Most Holy Death, the powerful folk saint of Mexico who has drawn the wrath of both the church and state. Santa Muerte has millions of devotees and the numbers are growing all over the world! To those devoted to her, she is their friend, a spiritual mother and the source of unconditional love and protection from whom all of the necessities of life flow. She is an advocate, a healer and the performer of miracles. Santa Muerte is the patron saint of those who have confronted death and lived and those who must confront deadly situations every day. She is a spirit of second chances who avenges those who are devoted to her and punishes evil-doers. She is a godmother who guides those under her care and arranges things in much the way a benevolent and powerful living benefactor might. This book shows you how to connect with Santa Muerte and includes information about how to construct an altar for her, how to consecrate items, how to pray the Rosary of Santa Muerte and provides prayers, spells and rituals for a variety of purposes.
Download or read book La Santa Muerte written by Tomás Prower and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book that presents the eclectic history, modern culture, and step-by-step magick spells of La Santa Muerte’s mystery schools to the non-Spanish-speaking world. As the patron saint of lost causes, the LGBT community, addicts, and anyone who has been marginalized by society, La Santa Muerte has a clandestine following of millions of devotees in the U.S. alone—and she’s only becoming more popular. Join author Tomás Prower as he shows step-by-step instruction for spells, magick, and prayers for practical results and long-term goals, including money, love, sex, healing, legal issues, protection, and more. La Santa Muerte also includes detailed information on: • History, myths, and symbols • Language, etiquette, and names • Tools, altars, and offerings
Download or read book Santa Muerte written by Warlock Asylum and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican folk saint adorably known as Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Our Lady of the Holy Death) has become the object of a growing spiritual tradition and global movement. The mysteries and devotional practices that constitute the fabric of Santa Muerte's legacy run as deep as its indigenous origins. Although the worship of Santa Muerte has been condemned by the Catholic Church and other clergies, it has become an intrinsic part of Mexican culture. Today, people from all walks of life and religious paradigms have found prosperity under the cloak of Holy Death's protection and miraculous gifts of loving-kindness. Santa Muerte: The Gnostic Bible of Holy Death reveals the unknown beginnings and deeply rooted alchemical principles that are embedded in the veneration of La Santisima Muerte. The science of Holy Death has ancient roots and a profound cosmology that is an important part of understanding Santa Muerte's gnosis. This text includes an English rendering of the "Gospel of Santa Muerte" and additional esoteric and ritual practices are included.
Download or read book Blood+Death written by John Lee Brook and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Sister... The Bony Lady... The Godmother... The Pretty Girl... This is Santa Muerte, personification of death. A veiled skeleton with an unquenchable thirst for destruction, Santa Muerte is Mexico’s grim and vengeful goddess. She is worshipped by outcasts and sinners, those for whom the traditional Christian deities of Jesus and the Virgin Mary have no place. For the notorious drug cartels, Santa Muerte is venerated as the saint who does not judge. She provides divine protection against authority and from rival gangs, demanding human sacrifice in return. The cult of Santa Muerte has become inextricably linked to the Mexican cartels over the past decade, resulting in barbaric rituals that have escalated the tide of violence across the streets. Bodies of cartel members are executed en masse at Santa Muerte shrines, and rumors abound of even worse atrocities in the name of magical protection. This book is the story of unholy alliance, of drug gangs and Santa Muerte, and a galvanic passion for blood and death.
Book Synopsis Book of Prayers Santa Muerte by : Max Ivanova
Download or read book Book of Prayers Santa Muerte written by Max Ivanova and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear reader, if you are a follower of Santa Muerte or want to start in this ancient cult, this book cannot be missing from your library! expand your knowledge and learn the most powerful prayers used by your worshipers, wizards and Mexican sorcerers. In this book you will learn the origin of this cult, how to make pacts and a recipe book with the most powerful prayers and spells for: Fortune, love, freeing yourself from jail, protection, health and even the destruction of your enemies, among others. ! Participate in the great power of the "Santisima Muerte" fulfill your most intimate desires, let her work in your life and open the doors to success and happiness!
Book Synopsis Santa Muerte Devotion 101 by : Arnold Bustillo
Download or read book Santa Muerte Devotion 101 written by Arnold Bustillo and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone who wants to learn more about practical Santa Muerte devotion. You will learn who may become a devotee of Santa Muerte, how to become a devotee, how to pray to the Santa Muerte, how to petition the Santa Muerte, and more.
Download or read book Santa Muerte written by Cynthia Pelayo and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n life, sometimes the only thing that can save you is death.Ariana Molina is a high school senior living in secret in Chicago, in hopes her father's enemies do not find her. One day her father Reynaldo Molina, the lead federal investigator in Mexico targeting criminal organizations, arrives unexpectedly at her doorstep. After he is involved in a strange car accident that leaves one person dead, Ari begins to have visions of a veiled skeletal figure trying to lure her.Struggling with visions of gruesome ghosts in the day and night, Ari is soon stalked by Chicago street gang members suspicious of her real identity. When Ari discovers they are indeed members of Mexico's most ruthless drug cartel who want her and her father dead, she has to make a choice to save their life and only Santa Muerte, the saint of death, can help her.
Book Synopsis Grimoire of Santa Muerte, Vol. 2 by : Sophia diGregorio
Download or read book Grimoire of Santa Muerte, Vol. 2 written by Sophia diGregorio and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Muerte is rising in popularity. With millions of devotees in Mexico, the U.S., and throughout the world and growing, devotion to Most Holy Death may be the biggest underground spiritual movement in the world. She is denounced by religious and governmental authorities. Yet, everywhere they have failed, she succeeds! This volume takes up where the first one leaves off by providing a deeper exploration of Santa Muerte's vast powers and includes the author's own secrets of working with her. It discusses altars, talismans, and images as generators, accumulators, and transmitters of Santa Muerte's power and how to direct the energy of the altar and its components. It provides potentially life-transforming rituals and prayers to Santa Muerte for transcendent experiences associated with traditional witchcraft. It includes meditations, talismans, prayers, and rituals regarding Santa Muerte's best known offices and powers and: Psychic abilities Divination skills Communication with ancestral and other spirits Energy transference Astral and etheric projection Transmogrification Weather control Santa Muerte is a very potent, primordial spirit of the Underworld whose purpose on earth is to help anyone who asks. She has many offices and aspects and is much more powerful, versatile and reliable than any other saint. Where other saints or spirits fail, Santa Muerte consistently achieves fast, reliable results on behalf of her devoted children, which is why she is so very much loved and venerated by those who have experienced her power. Devotion to Santa Muerte not about faith or belief, it's about your own personal experience with this ancient spirit. Learn more about the lifestyle of the Santa Muerte devotee and gain the knowledge and power to control your own life. Expand your knowledge of the art and occult science of witchcraft. Join the millions who have experienced Santa Muerte's power for themselves!
Download or read book Saint Death written by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A propulsive, compelling, and unsparing novel set in the grimly violent world of the human and drug trade on the US-Mexican border. On the outskirts of Juarez, Arturo scrapes together a living working odd jobs and staying out of sight. But his friend Faustino is in trouble: he’s stolen money from the narcos to smuggle his girlfriend and her baby into the US, and needs Arturo's help to get it back. To help his friend, Arturo must face the remorseless world of drug and human traffickers that surrounds him, and contend with a murky past. Hovering over his story is the unsparing divinity Santa Muerte, Saint Death—and the relentless economic and social inequalities that haunt the border between Mexico and its rich northern neighbor. Crafted with poetry and cinematic pace and narrated with cold fury, Saint Death is a provocative tour de force from three-time Printz Award honoree Marcus Sedgwick. This title has Common Core connections. A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book
Download or read book Santa Muerte written by Tony Kail and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'Santa Muerte: Mexico's mysterious saint of death', Kail explores news accounts, police reports and personal interviews with followers of the death saint. He discovers a world of magic, spir[i]tualism and unexplained phenomenon"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity by :
Download or read book Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions & Allegiance traces how the largest religion in the world continues to be expressed in energetic global dynamic forms. In contemporary times Christianity is increasingly exposed to divisions, not only through its traditional channels – Roman Catholic, Protestant and the Orthodoxy – nor conservative and liberal streams, but numerous nuanced articulations. This is reflected in the roles of clergy and lay people, in organisational dynamics, sources of allegiance and articulations of the faith, movements of renewal and revivalism, syncretic modes, and broader relationships with wider cultural trajectories and changing social circumstances. Collectively the contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive exploration of these themes. The volume is a companion to the Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity.
Book Synopsis Death and Dying by : Timothy D Knepper
Download or read book Death and Dying written by Timothy D Knepper and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medicalization of death is a challenge for all the world's religious and cultural traditions. Death's meaning has been reduced to a diagnosis, a problem, rather than a mystery for humans to ponder. How have religious traditions responded? What resources do they bring to a discussion of death's contemporary dilemmas? This book offers a range of creative and contextual responses from a variety of religious and cultural traditions. It features 14 essays from scholars of different religious and philosophical traditions, who spoke as part of a recent lecture and dialogue series of Drake University’s The Comparison Project. The scholars represent ethnologists, medical ethicists, historians, philosophers, and theologians--all facing up to questions of truth and value in the light of the urgent need to move past a strictly medicalized vision. This volume serves as the second publication of The Comparison Project, an innovative new approach to the philosophy of religion housed at Drake University. The Comparison Project organizes a biennial series of scholar lectures, practitioner dialogues, and comparative panels about core, cross-cultural topics in the philosophy of religion. The Comparison Project stands apart from traditional, theistic approaches to the philosophy of religion in its commitment to religious inclusivity. It is the future of the philosophy of religion in a diverse, global world.
