In this captivating online workshop, Dr. Andrew Chesnut—foremost expert on Latin American folk religion—unveils the sacred power of Santa Muerte, Mexico’s macabre yet maternal Skeleton Saint. Far from a figure of fear, she embodies the fierce feminine: protector and punisher, healer and harbinger of death, a saint who commands reverence in both the candlelit altars of barrios and the global marketplace of magic.
Dr. Chesnut explores how Santa Muerte’s radical femininity defies patriarchal norms, offering divine agency to those society overlooks—women, queer devotees, the poor, and the brokenhearted. Her skeletal form strips away illusion, revealing a sacred equality in death that becomes a source of empowerment in life. Through vivid imagery, testimonies, and sharp analysis, this workshop reveals how Santa Muerte fuses compassion with ferocity, mercy with might—embodying the ultimate paradox of the sacred feminine.
Join Dr. Chesnut for a journey into the heart of death’s divine womanhood, where love, power, and liberation wear the face of the eternal feminine.
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