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THE SANTA MUERTE BY GUSTAVO VÁZQUEZ LOZANO
“Enter … a skeletal figure dressed like a Catholic saint … raised to the altars without … permission.”
This ungodly-short book is really more an intensive article about an unholy saint and the movement based upon her called, The Unholy Death. One should know this before purchasing. About the lack of length, I mean. Still, I think it is worth the reasonable price of admission. Santa Muerte is a kind of folk saint, if you keep in mind that most those folks are pretty bad. Gustavo Vázquez Lozano, the author of this short but fascinating piece about Santa Muerte, offers the reader a preview glimpse prior to organizing and presenting his beguiling but disturbing information in several chapters. Hard to do in only 30+ pages, but also kind of fun. Bibles sometimes come this way as well. Short, but with chapters.
Despite its foreshortened length, The Santa Muerte is surprisingly comprehensive. Gustavo Vázquez Lozano is both erudite and clear. His writing is cogent and precise, highly journalistic in both arrangement and informative punch. This makes for easy but enlightening reading about a subject sure to garner expanding interest, including a budding desire to stay tuned. After all, a somewhat demonic saint possessing such a variety of deprecatory names, with a highly sketchy following spreading like a virus, is a force to be reckoned with and therefore someone to understand better. As for the cult itself, at one point in his revelations the author succinctly summarizes its most defining trait:
“Who cares about theological consistency?”
G. LOZANO
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