Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780197769133)

Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut is Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor and Director of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of the first academic book in English and several other languages on the folk saint of death-- Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy, and Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.