Borderlands saints: Secular sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican culture by Desirée A. Martín

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Book Review

Publication Date

6-2016

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

In this thought-provoking work, Desirée Martín explores the richly paradoxical world of Mexican and Chicano/a “borderland saints” who do not fit neatly into any official category of religion but who nonetheless represent a unique form of secular sanctity. The author shows that although these saints may not qualify as religious in a traditional sense, their effects on people are de facto religious in the outcomes produced.

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