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Is Mexican folk Catholicism a distinct tradition in its own right, within which the Mexican folk saints and Santa Muerte belong?

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The pantheon holds one deity, Santa Muerte, and this atlas has no entry yet for Mexican folk Catholicism or for any tradition that would hold her. The gap is a missing tradition, not a missing link, so no connection can be recorded today.

What would resolve this A decision on whether folk Catholicism should be catalogued as its own tradition or as a denomination of Catholicism, then the entry itself. The atlas already treats syncretic Afro-Caribbean traditions as their own traditions, which is the nearest precedent.
OpenLatin American religious studies; anthropology of folk CatholicismDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition
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