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This anthology is a welcome addition to what Wil Pansters demonstrates is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of inquiry: the cult of La Santa Muerte. A comprehensive introduction is followed by timely, fascinating topical essays that shed light on the cult and related topics concerning the cultural role of death in twenty-first-century Mexico.--Martin Austin Nesvig, editor of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico

La Santa Muerte in Mexico contributes a valuable analytical perspective to the ongoing scholarly conversation regarding this enigmatic figure.--Anna M. Nogar, Church History This anthology is a welcome addition to what Wil Pansters demonstrates is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of inquiry: the cult of La Santa Muerte. A comprehensive introduction is followed by timely, fascinating topical essays that shed light on the cult and related topics concerning the cultural role of death in twenty-first-century Mexico.--Martin Austin Nesvig, editor of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico

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Wil G. Pansters is a professor of cultural anthropology at Utrecht University. He is the editor of Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur.

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