Dr. Andrew Chesnut

That time I publicly debated an anthropologist colleague over the signficance and destruction of a Santa Muerte statue left in a cemetery on the Tex-Mex border. youtube.com/shorts/iSigT...

I'm interviewed on Santa Muerte, the fastest growing New Religious Movement on the planet strangeroute.com/blog/santa-m...

That time I publicly debated an anthropologist colleague over the signficance and destruction of a Santa Muerte statue left in a cemetery on the Tex-Mex border. youtube.com/shorts/iSigT...

First Serbia, and now an even more seismic election result for the geopolitics of now. Hard to overstate how important Brazil bucking the far right trend in Latin America is - also a huge blow to Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

handleysandy "I got a complaint call at work this week. A woman called to report an offensive Halloween display, saying her neighbors were displaying the Virgin Mary as a skeleton. That is a turtle on top of the skeleton’s head." As seen on Threads

Gorgeous fall colors in my local woods!

That time an American Baptist preacher took an axe to the 2 giants of the Mexican religious landscape, Santa Muerte and the Virgin of Guadalupe at a church in Mexico! x.com/bannedpastor...

@drdeathanddivinity.bsky.social my signed copy arrived yesterday just in time for my train trip. Thanks so much. I look forward to reading it! #SantaMuerte #BonyLady

That time an American Baptist preacher took an axe to the 2 giants of the Mexican religious landscape, Santa Muerte and the Virgin of Guadalupe at a church in Mexico! x.com/bannedpastor...

"En una entrevista publicada por Pew Research Center, el investigador Andrew Chesnut destacó su adaptación a las culturas locales, la cercanía entre predicadores y congregaciones y el énfasis en experiencias de sanación y transformación personal." www.uypress.net/Internaciona...

My season now, witches!

"En una entrevista publicada por Pew Research Center, el investigador Andrew Chesnut destacó su adaptación a las culturas locales, la cercanía entre predicadores y congregaciones y el énfasis en experiencias de sanación y transformación personal." www.uypress.net/Internaciona...

My season now, witches!

I wrote the script for this seasonal episode of Religion for Breakfast. youtu.be/jbEbe4uzbIE?...

handleysandy "I got a complaint call at work this week. A woman called to report an offensive Halloween display, saying her neighbors were displaying the Virgin Mary as a skeleton. That is a turtle on top of the skeleton’s head." As seen on Threads

Peticiones de amor y pareja: Los orígenes de la devoción El académico Andrew Chesnut recoge en sus estudios sobre la Santa Muerte antiguas oraciones dirigidas a recuperar parejas, enfrentar infidelidades y buscar estabilidad sentimental. youtube.com/shorts/UFtj9...

I wrote the script for this seasonal episode of Religion for Breakfast. youtu.be/jbEbe4uzbIE?...

Peticiones de amor y pareja: Los orígenes de la devoción El académico Andrew Chesnut recoge en sus estudios sobre la Santa Muerte antiguas oraciones dirigidas a recuperar parejas, enfrentar infidelidades y buscar estabilidad sentimental. youtube.com/shorts/UFtj9...

R. Andrew Chesnut, who holds the Chair in Catholic Studies at VCU, told OSV News that President Donald Trump’s “declining support among Catholics reflects broader dissatisfaction with his presidency, but there are also distinctly Catholic factors at work.” www.osvnews.com/washington-l...

"El investigador R. Andrew Chesnut relaciona esta figura con el encuentro entre representaciones europeas de la muerte —como la Parca— y creencias indígenas mesoamericanas sobre las divinidades del inframundo. Entre las figuras que suelen mencionarse está.." historiasdelacripta.com/santa-muerte...

R. Andrew Chesnut, who holds the Chair in Catholic Studies at VCU, told OSV News that President Donald Trump’s “declining support among Catholics reflects broader dissatisfaction with his presidency, but there are also distinctly Catholic factors at work.” www.osvnews.com/washington-l...

A prominent Canadian devotee with his copy of the new third edition of my seminal book on Santa Muerte!

"El investigador R. Andrew Chesnut relaciona esta figura con el encuentro entre representaciones europeas de la muerte —como la Parca— y creencias indígenas mesoamericanas sobre las divinidades del inframundo. Entre las figuras que suelen mencionarse está.." historiasdelacripta.com/santa-muerte...

A prominent Canadian devotee with his copy of the new third edition of my seminal book on Santa Muerte!

At my VCU Endowed Chairs' Dinner last night. I've held an Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies since 2008.

For many of its devotees, it symbolizes protection, justice, and the equality of all people before death. Researcher R. Andrew Chesnut has studied this devotion in his book Devoted to Death, published by Oxford University Press. historiasdelacripta.com/simbolos-de-...

Basado en mi libro mexicano "Santa Muerte: El Movimiento Religioso de Más Rápido Crecimiento en el Mundo" youtube.com/shorts/NQ-5S...

At my VCU Endowed Chairs' Dinner last night. I've held an Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies since 2008.

Always sweet to see my research on Santa Muerte adored on Reddit even if it's for "ChesTnut" 😀💀 www.reddit.com/r/TorsCabine...

Always sweet to see my research on Santa Muerte adored on Reddit even if it's for "ChesTnut" 😀💀 www.reddit.com/r/TorsCabine...

Today is the feast of the most important Black Madonna in the world in terms of devotees - Brazil's Virgin of Aparecida who has been at the center of controvery in the country's presidental elections. patheos.com/blogs/theglo...

Travel guide to the famous Santa Muerte shrine Tepito, Mexico City "R. Andrew Chesnut is a professor of religious studies at VCU. His book Devoted to Death, published by Oxford University Press in 2012 and updated in 2025, was the first academic study in..." strangeroute.com/places/altar...

Please don’t start me again on the median expression of Christianity in England being a west African Pentecostal church in south London which most of these people would find as alien as a mosque www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Today is the feast of the most important Black Madonna in the world in terms of devotees - Brazil's Virgin of Aparecida who has been at the center of controvery in the country's presidental elections. patheos.com/blogs/theglo...

Massive votive candle selection, including Santa Muerte, at HEB supermarket in a small Texas town!

Travel guide to the famous Santa Muerte shrine Tepito, Mexico City "R. Andrew Chesnut is a professor of religious studies at VCU. His book Devoted to Death, published by Oxford University Press in 2012 and updated in 2025, was the first academic study in..." strangeroute.com/places/altar...

Amazing votive candle selection in small town Texas!

Massive votive candle selection, including Santa Muerte, at HEB supermarket in a small Texas town!

Amazing votive candle selection in small town Texas!

"Beyond the books that I bought in Mexico City, DEVOTED TO DEATH by R. Andrew Chesnut provided a wealth of information. It’s a comprehensive study of the cult of Santa Muerte and how the phenomenon has become the patroness of the drug war." carmenamato.net/detective-em...

"Beyond the books that I bought in Mexico City, DEVOTED TO DEATH by R. Andrew Chesnut provided a wealth of information. It’s a comprehensive study of the cult of Santa Muerte and how the phenomenon has become the patroness of the drug war." carmenamato.net/detective-em...

The religious historian R. Andrew Chesnut places Santa Muerte's primary origin instead in La Parca, the skeletal Grim Reaper of Spanish Catholicism carried to New Spain by evangelizing friars, where it met Indigenous traditions of death veneration... www.atmostfear-entertainment.com/literature/b...

Buen resumen de la primera edicion de mi libro mexicano sobre la Santa Muerte La segunda edicion se encuentra en los comentarios. youtube.com/shorts/WQz-o...

The religious historian R. Andrew Chesnut places Santa Muerte's primary origin instead in La Parca, the skeletal Grim Reaper of Spanish Catholicism carried to New Spain by evangelizing friars, where it met Indigenous traditions of death veneration... www.atmostfear-entertainment.com/literature/b...