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      Diecisiete años de la Congregación Nacional de la Santa Muerte en Ecatepec, Estado de México Translated title: Seventeen years of the National Congregation of Santa Muerte in Ecatepec, State of Mexico

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          Resumen La Congregación Nacional de la Santa Muerte (CNSM) surgió a principios del año 2000 en Ecatepec de Morelos, en el Estado de México, como parte de la expansión del culto surgido en Tepito, Ciudad de México, y que más tarde se convertiría en referente para la práctica ritual. Si bien la CNSM se basó en dicho modelo, imprimió su propio estilo debido a la formación académica de sus líderes (un historiador y un comunicólogo que han integrado al ritual préstamos culturales de distintos sistemas religiosos) sumada a la experiencia del jefe de familia como heredero de la sabiduría familiar en artes oscuras, como la hechicería, la brujería y el culto a la Santa Muerte. Para erigir su altar, el padre y sus dos hijos, como ministros, tomaron el espacio bajo el puente vehicular a un costado del metro Ecatepec. En este artículo abordamos el culto a la Santa Muerte desde un enfoque cualitativo realizando observación participante en sus ritos mensuales y en la fiesta de Día de Muertos, y conversando con líderes y creyentes, portadores y practicantes de un culto que ha ganado suficiente eficacia simbólica para mantenerse y crecer durante diecisiete años en un proceso de formalización.

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          Abstract The National Congregation of Santa Muerte (CNSM) came into being early in the year 2000, in Ecatepec de Morelos (State of Mexico), as part of the expansion of the cult that arose in Tepito (Mexico City), and which later became a reference for ritual practice. Although the CNSM was based on the aforementioned model, it later published its own ‘ritual practices,’ due to the academic training of its leaders (a historian and a communicator, who have integrated the cultural loans from different religious systems into the rituals), added to the experience of the head of the family as the heir of family wisdom in the dark arts, such as sorcery, witchcraft, and the cult of Santa Muerte. To erect his altar, the father and his two sons (as ministers), appropriated space below the vehicular bridge close to the Ecatepec Metro (subway) station. In this article, we approach the cult of Santa Muerte through a qualitative approach, performing participant observation during its monthly rites and the festival of the ‘Day of the Dead,’ along with conversing with leaders and believers, bearers and practitioners of a cult that has gained sufficient symbolic effectiveness to not only maintain itself, but to increase its follower numbers -for seventeen years- through a process of formalization.

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                Journal
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                Cuicuilco. Revista de ciencias antropológicas
                Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol.
                Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                2448-9018
                2448-8488
                April 2020
                : 27
                : 77
                : 131-158
                Affiliations
                [1] orgnameEscuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia México
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                S2448-84882020000100131 S2448-8488(20)02707700131
                7ff9230d-9127-4ec8-8bad-fa17caad2052

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 23 March 2019
                : 26 February 2020
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                Santa Muerte,modernidad,crisis económica,Ecatepec,modernity,economic crisis

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