FREE
LECTURE
George
Sieg on
THE
CULT OF
LA SANTISIMA MUERTE
Friday,
09/25/2015, 7 PM,
at Edge of the Circle Books
The Culto de Santa Muerte is probably
the fastest growing religion in North America and likely the
fastest-growing New Religious Movement in the world.
With over 10,000 devotees and rising,
it is no surprise that Santa Muerte has inspired the fascination and
attention of magicians well beyond the folk practitioners of Mexico.
She is not only a death goddess, but expresses herself with all the
diverse forms and colors of a magic goddess as well. Her worship
crosses syncretism with reconstructionism, folk religion with folk
magic, new religious movements with a presently developing magical
paradigm, devotional worship with the ambitions of the Left-Hand
Path.
Yet this diversity implies tension, and
her movement already sees competition between church and cult,
between magician and priest, folk Catholic and post-Chaoist. This
lecture by Dr. George Sieg, University of New Mexico, is a sequel to
his presentation last Spring at the Southwest Popular Culture
Association annual conference on the Cult of Holy Death in Los
Estados Unidos.
This lecture addresses these
contentions of identity and orientation in her growing cult,
comparing competing origin stories and contending frameworks for her
veneration, with content sure to be of interest to scholarly,
religious, and magical practitioners alike.
The new address is 1307
NE 45th St.,
Seattle, WA 98105,
between Brooklyn and
University Way,
next to the Neptune
Theatre, in the U-District.
Edge of the Circle
Books
Phone: (206)
726-1999
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