Date of Award

2014

Document Type

Research Paper

Department

Whittier Scholars Program

First Advisor

Jose Orozco

Abstract

This project provides an in-depth study of Santa Muerte (Saint Death) a religious movement centered on the worship of death. This project is centered on how immigrants in Los Angeles worship Santa Muerte and includes research taken from ethnographic observations at three Santa Muerte churches located in Los Angeles. In essence this project works to analyze the three components of worship which include the rosary, discussion and the limpia. These components are also analyzed through Luis D. Leon's theoretical framework on Sacred Poetics and Avery F. Gordon's study of haunting and the sociological imagination.

Comments

WSP major: Latino/a Immigrant Religiosity & Social Justice

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