Open AccessBendito tú eres entre todos los bandidos: el culto transfronterizo a Jesús Malverde (siglos XIX-XXI)
Author(s) -
Carolina da Cunha Rocha
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
frontera norte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0187-7372
DOI - 10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2029
Subject(s) - worship , cult , ostensive definition , saint , drug trafficking , humanities , ethnology , art , history , ancient history , theology , art history , sociology , criminology , philosophy , linguistics
The purpose of this article is to analyze the religious aspect of the drug trafficking culture, in particular, the devotion to the popular saint Jesus Malverde in Mexico between the 19th and 21st centuries. The guiding hypothesis is that the worship of this saint has been resignified since the 1970s as a response to a stronger repressive apparatus against drugs due to the increase in drug use in the United States. The Malverdian cult was adopted by the drug trafficking culture in the most ostensive way, and it has crossed geographic and cultural borders.