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By Guest Contributor Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Across Mexico people are turning to miraculous holy healers...

Co-authored by Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut One of the lamentable...

By guest contributor Dr. Robert Chesnut* I was working on my divinity degree at Harvard...

By guest contributor Dr. Alejandro Díaz-Domínguez* This analysis originally appeared in the Nexos online blog...

Jointly authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury*, David B. Metcalfe**, and Dr. Andrew Chesnut The season...

"The Bible returns to the presidential palace." That's what the Bolivian interim President Jeanine Áñez...

  By Dr. Kate Kingsbury and Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut Since what is now the...

Co-authored by Dr. Andrew Chesnut and Dr. Kate Kingsbury* Glaringly absent from most of the...

During the second half of the 19th century in the mountain towns of New Mexico...

First published by Oxford University Press in 2012 with the second edition in 2017, my...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut It's Brazil that's been in the...

What really struck me in the second episode of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In this piece we explore the...

‘My name is Death: the last best friend am I’. Robert Southey, 1816 Co-authored by...

What prompted your interest in the Santa Muerte phenomena?* I am a specialist in the...

“The Bible has returned to the palace," Bolivian interim President Senator Jeanine Áñez said when...

Pachamama has become the latest lightning rod of division in the Catholic Church. She is...

As a specialist in the Mexican religious landscape I had visited the Saint Jude shrine...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Professor Andrew Chesnut A widely circulated photo of Ovidio...

By Professor Andrew Chesnut and Doctor Kate Kingsbury* While the Catholic Church adopts a preferential...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Santa Muerte, Saint Death and Holy...

Co-authored by Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut Brazilian history since the...

Having researched the Mexican skeleton saint Santa Muerte for the past decade I am quite...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In a country with the world’s...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut In a country with the world’s...

By Guest Contributor Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada* Nola, a small town outside of Naples in the...

By guest contributor *Dr. Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi The Universal Church of the Kingdom of...

Co-authored by Dr. Kate Kingsbury* and Dr. Andrew Chesnut As of the past few decades,...

By guest contributor Judika Illes* Where do you go if your legal papers are taking...

By Kate Kingsbury The Mexican State’s relationship with the region of Oaxaca, is tenuous, unlike...