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Globalizing the sacred : religion across the Americas / Manuel A. Vásquez, Marie F. Marquardt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �2003.Description: viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813532841
  • 9780813532844
  • 081353285X
  • 9780813532851
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6/097 21
LOC classification:
  • BL2500 .V37 2003
Other classification:
  • 11.05
  • BE 9000
  • LB 46610
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) BL2500 .V37 2003 Available 31826003495349

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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