Globalizing the sacred : religion across the Americas /

V�asquez, Manuel A.

Globalizing the sacred : religion across the Americas / Manuel A. V�asquez, Marie F. Marquardt. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �2003. - 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations -

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.

An exploration of how globalization affects the evolving roles of religion in the Americas.


English.

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Religion and sociology--America.
Globalization--Religious aspects.


America--Religion.

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