TY - BOOK AU - Vásquez,Manuel A. AU - Marquardt,Marie F. TI - Globalizing the sacred: religion across the Americas SN - 0813532841 AV - BL2500 .V37 2003 U1 - 306.6/097 21 PY - 2003/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Religion and sociology KW - America KW - Globalization KW - Religious aspects KW - Sociologie religieuse KW - Amérique KW - Mondialisation KW - Aspect religieux KW - fast KW - Religion KW - Godsdienst KW - gtt KW - Internationalisatie KW - Globalisierung KW - gnd KW - Massenmedien KW - ram KW - Internet KW - swd KW - Amerika N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10075356 UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=010049217&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -