Kate Kingsbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Kingsbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Kingsbury |
| SIGNATURE | KINGSBURY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Saint Death and the virus: Mexico’s Santa Muerte is reaper, healer and spiritual key worker
Death is Women's Work: Santa Muerte, a Folk Saint and Her Female Followers
Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage
In this article, we trace the syncretic origins and development of the new religious movement centered on the Mexican folk saint of death, Santa Muerte. We explore how she was born of the syncretic association of the Spanish Catholic Grim Reapress and Pre-Columbian Indigenous thanatologies in the colonial era. Through further religious bricolage in the post-colony, we describe how as the new religious movement rapidly expanded it integrated eleme…
Doctor Death and Coronavirus: Supplicating Santa Muerte for Holy Healing
Human beings have long turned to religion and faith healing to overcome illness and seek to delay death. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, I consider how in Mexico, devotees of Santa Muerte are turning to the folk saint of death to ward off and recover from the virus. I argue that supplication of Santa Muerte during times of coronavirus offers a social critique on the current context in Mexico. The government has introduced budget cuts, re…
Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint
As Santa Muerte prayer cards and candles circulate in Mexico with petitions of protection against COVID-19, we consider death as doctor in these tumultuous times proving that the folk saint of death is not solely a narco-saint, as the press depicts, but is supplicated for miracles of COVID healing and protection from the virus. We not only reveal the importance of religion for coping with pandemics but also focus on the notion of death as healing…
Staging Touba: The Performance of Piety
Touba, in Senegal, is the equivalent to Mecca for Sufi Mouride Muslims, who embark on an annual pilgrimage called Le Grand Magal to celebrate the founder of their faith, Cheikh Amadou Bamba. When devotees describe their sacred city they frequently compare Touba to heaven, juxtaposing it to the materiality and chaos of other Senegalese cities, as though it was distinct from these lieux. Yet Touba shares many similarities in terms of its economic i…
Not Just a Narcosaint: Santa Muerte as Matron Saint of the Mexican Drug War
Santa Muerte: Sainte Matronne de l'amour et de la mort
Dans cet article, nous soutenons que Santa Muerte, une sainte mexicaine feminine de l’amour et de la mort, bien que souvent caracterisee comme une « narco-sainte » associee aux narcotrafiquants et
In Her Own Image: Slave Women and the Re-imagining of the Polish Black Madonna as Ezili Dantò, the Fierce Female Lwa of Haitian Vodou
Modern Mouride Marabouts and their Young Disciples in Dakar
This article provides an analysis of new religious Sufi Mouride movements in Senegal. In it, I analyse the charismatic leaders and their young disciples, elucidating that their interactive rapport forms the basis of the popularity of these movements. I demonstrate that young Dakarois have played a significant role in the regeneration of religious belief among the Mourides, and I posit that the leaders of these movements proffer a counter-discours…
Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint
As Santa Muerte prayer cards and candles circulate in Mexico with petitions of protection against COVID-19, we consider death as doctor in these tumultuous times proving that the folk saint of death is not solely a narco-saint, as the press depicts, but is supplicated for miracles of COVID healing and protection from the virus. We not only reveal the importance of religion for coping with pandemics but also focus on the notion of death as healing…
Not Just a Narcosaint: Santa Muerte as Matron Saint of the Mexican Drug War
Santa Muerte: Sainte Matronne de l'amour et de la mort
Dans cet article, nous soutenons que Santa Muerte, une sainte mexicaine feminine de l’amour et de la mort, bien que souvent caracterisee comme une « narco-sainte » associee aux narcotrafiquants et
Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage
In this article, we trace the syncretic origins and development of the new religious movement centered on the Mexican folk saint of death, Santa Muerte. We explore how she was born of the syncretic association of the Spanish Catholic Grim Reapress and Pre-Columbian Indigenous thanatologies in the colonial era. Through further religious bricolage in the post-colony, we describe how as the new religious movement rapidly expanded it integrated eleme…
Doctor Death and Coronavirus: Supplicating Santa Muerte for Holy Healing
Human beings have long turned to religion and faith healing to overcome illness and seek to delay death. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, I consider how in Mexico, devotees of Santa Muerte are turning to the folk saint of death to ward off and recover from the virus. I argue that supplication of Santa Muerte during times of coronavirus offers a social critique on the current context in Mexico. The government has introduced budget cuts, re…
In Her Own Image: Slave Women and the Re-imagining of the Polish Black Madonna as Ezili Dantò, the Fierce Female Lwa of Haitian Vodou
Death is Women's Work: Santa Muerte, a Folk Saint and Her Female Followers
Staging Touba: The Performance of Piety
Touba, in Senegal, is the equivalent to Mecca for Sufi Mouride Muslims, who embark on an annual pilgrimage called Le Grand Magal to celebrate the founder of their faith, Cheikh Amadou Bamba. When devotees describe their sacred city they frequently compare Touba to heaven, juxtaposing it to the materiality and chaos of other Senegalese cities, as though it was distinct from these lieux. Yet Touba shares many similarities in terms of its economic i…
Modern Mouride Marabouts and their Young Disciples in Dakar
This article provides an analysis of new religious Sufi Mouride movements in Senegal. In it, I analyse the charismatic leaders and their young disciples, elucidating that their interactive rapport forms the basis of the popularity of these movements. I demonstrate that young Dakarois have played a significant role in the regeneration of religious belief among the Mourides, and I posit that the leaders of these movements proffer a counter-discours…
Modern Mouride Marabouts and their Young Disciples in Dakar
This article provides an analysis of new religious Sufi Mouride movements in Senegal. In it, I analyse the charismatic leaders and their young disciples, elucidating that their interactive rapport forms the basis of the popularity of these movements. I demonstrate that young Dakarois have played a significant role in the regeneration of religious belief among the Mourides, and I posit that the leaders of these movements proffer a counter-discours…
In Her Own Image: Slave Women and the Re-imagining of the Polish Black Madonna as Ezili Dantò, the Fierce Female Lwa of Haitian Vodou
Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint
As Santa Muerte prayer cards and candles circulate in Mexico with petitions of protection against COVID-19, we consider death as doctor in these tumultuous times proving that the folk saint of death is not solely a narco-saint, as the press depicts, but is supplicated for miracles of COVID healing and protection from the virus. We not only reveal the importance of religion for coping with pandemics but also focus on the notion of death as healing…
Staging Touba: The Performance of Piety
Touba, in Senegal, is the equivalent to Mecca for Sufi Mouride Muslims, who embark on an annual pilgrimage called Le Grand Magal to celebrate the founder of their faith, Cheikh Amadou Bamba. When devotees describe their sacred city they frequently compare Touba to heaven, juxtaposing it to the materiality and chaos of other Senegalese cities, as though it was distinct from these lieux. Yet Touba shares many similarities in terms of its economic i…
Not Just a Narcosaint: Santa Muerte as Matron Saint of the Mexican Drug War
Santa Muerte: Sainte Matronne de l'amour et de la mort
Dans cet article, nous soutenons que Santa Muerte, une sainte mexicaine feminine de l’amour et de la mort, bien que souvent caracterisee comme une « narco-sainte » associee aux narcotrafiquants et
Death is Women's Work: Santa Muerte, a Folk Saint and Her Female Followers
Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage
In this article, we trace the syncretic origins and development of the new religious movement centered on the Mexican folk saint of death, Santa Muerte. We explore how she was born of the syncretic association of the Spanish Catholic Grim Reapress and Pre-Columbian Indigenous thanatologies in the colonial era. Through further religious bricolage in the post-colony, we describe how as the new religious movement rapidly expanded it integrated eleme…
Doctor Death and Coronavirus: Supplicating Santa Muerte for Holy Healing
Human beings have long turned to religion and faith healing to overcome illness and seek to delay death. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, I consider how in Mexico, devotees of Santa Muerte are turning to the folk saint of death to ward off and recover from the virus. I argue that supplication of Santa Muerte during times of coronavirus offers a social critique on the current context in Mexico. The government has introduced budget cuts, re…
Saint Death and the virus: Mexico’s Santa Muerte is reaper, healer and spiritual key worker
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