Ep 110: Exorcism w/Dr. Kate Kingsbury and Dr. Andrew Chesnut
04/25/19 • 56 min
Dr. Kate Kingsbury obtained her doctorate in Anthropology from Oxford University. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta where she teaches anthropology courses such as Introduction to Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion and Ethnographic Field Methods.
Kate Kingsbury on Academia.edu
Follow Kate Kingsbury on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfKingsbury
Dr. Andrew Chesnut earned his Ph.D degree in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and joined the History Department faculty at the University of Houston in 1997. He quickly became an internationally recognized expert on Latin American religious history. Professor Chesnut was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at VCU in 2008. Professor Chesnut’s early work, Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (Rutgers University Press, 1997), traces the meteoric rise of Pentecostalism among the popular classes in Brazil following the disestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church. His second book, Competitive Spirits: Latin America’s New Religious Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003) focuses on the three groups that have prospered most in the region’s pluralist landscape, Protestant Pentecostalism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and African disasporic religions (e.g., Brazilian Candomble and Haitian Vodou). Professor Chesnut's most recent book is Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012). It is the first in-depth study of the Mexican folk saint in English and has received widespread media coverage.
Follow Dr. Andrew Chesnut on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AndrewChesnut1
Visit: https://skeletonsaint.com/
Buy Devoted to Death by Andrew Chesnut:
Further reading on exorcism:
Driving Out the Devil from Catholic Herald
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/04/exorcising-the-demons-of-africa/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/08/why-is-exorcism-all-the-rage/
Dr. Kate Kingsbury obtained her doctorate in Anthropology from Oxford University. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta where she teaches anthropology courses such as Introduction to Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion and Ethnographic Field Methods.
Kate Kingsbury on Academia.edu
Follow Kate Kingsbury on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfKingsbury
Dr. Andrew Chesnut earned his Ph.D degree in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and joined the History Department faculty at the University of Houston in 1997. He quickly became an internationally recognized expert on Latin American religious history. Professor Chesnut was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at VCU in 2008. Professor Chesnut’s early work, Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (Rutgers University Press, 1997), traces the meteoric rise of Pentecostalism among the popular classes in Brazil following the disestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church. His second book, Competitive Spirits: Latin America’s New Religious Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003) focuses on the three groups that have prospered most in the region’s pluralist landscape, Protestant Pentecostalism, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and African disasporic religions (e.g., Brazilian Candomble and Haitian Vodou). Professor Chesnut's most recent book is Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012). It is the first in-depth study of the Mexican folk saint in English and has received widespread media coverage.
Follow Dr. Andrew Chesnut on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AndrewChesnut1
Visit: https://skeletonsaint.com/
Buy Devoted to Death by Andrew Chesnut:
Further reading on exorcism:
Driving Out the Devil from Catholic Herald
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/04/exorcising-the-demons-of-africa/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/08/why-is-exorcism-all-the-rage/
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