Globalizing the sacred : religion across the Americas /
Vásquez, Manuel A.
Globalizing the sacred : religion across the Americas / Manuel A. Vásquez, Marie F. Marquardt. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �2003. - viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? -- "Blitzing" Central America : the politics of religious broadcasting.
Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, Manuel A. Vasquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies, and the crisis of modernity. Combining ethnographic research in local congregations, studies of material culture and sacred space, textual analyses, and approaches to mass and electronic media, the authors challenge dominant paradigms in the sociology of religion.
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Religion and sociology--America.
Globalization--Religious aspects.
Sociologie religieuse--Amérique.
Mondialisation--Aspect religieux.
Globalization--Religious aspects.
Religion.
Religion and sociology.
Godsdienst.
Internationalisatie.
Globalisierung
Religion
Massenmedien
Sociologie religieuse--Amérique.
Mondialisation--Aspect religieux.
Internet.
America--Religion.
Amérique--Religion.
America.
Amerika
Amérique--Religion.
BL2500 / .V37 2003
306.6/097
Globalizing the sacred : religion across the Americas / Manuel A. Vásquez, Marie F. Marquardt. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �2003. - viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? -- "Blitzing" Central America : the politics of religious broadcasting.
Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, Manuel A. Vasquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies, and the crisis of modernity. Combining ethnographic research in local congregations, studies of material culture and sacred space, textual analyses, and approaches to mass and electronic media, the authors challenge dominant paradigms in the sociology of religion.
0813532841 9780813532844 081353285X 9780813532851
9780813532844
00023046
2002152411
GBA3W2820 bnb
000024184729 AU
Religion and sociology--America.
Globalization--Religious aspects.
Sociologie religieuse--Amérique.
Mondialisation--Aspect religieux.
Globalization--Religious aspects.
Religion.
Religion and sociology.
Godsdienst.
Internationalisatie.
Globalisierung
Religion
Massenmedien
Sociologie religieuse--Amérique.
Mondialisation--Aspect religieux.
Internet.
America--Religion.
Amérique--Religion.
America.
Amerika
Amérique--Religion.
BL2500 / .V37 2003
306.6/097