Abstract

BRAVO LARA, Blanca Estela. Bajo tu manto nos acogemos: devotos a la Santa Muerte en la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara. Nueva antropol [online]. 2013, vol.26, n.79, pp.11-28. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article deals with the cult to the Santa Muerte (Holy or Saint Death) based on the experience of its devotees, who, immersed in the socioeconomic context of crisis and uncertainty, cannot find the answers they seek in ordinary institutions. The present approach calls for including the Catholic Church in an analysis of the cult, because in the case of the Guadalajara metropolitan area, worshippers left this Church, which was yet another of the institutions unable to satisfactorily meet the practical and religious needs of its followers. The article portrays the characteristics of the veneration and its relation to Catholicism, while it also explains the process that leads a Catholic who feels symbolically excluded and unsatisfied to become a worshipper of the Santa Muerte.

Keywords : Santa Muerte (Holy Death); base religion; religiousness-complement; inclusion-exclusion; far-near.

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