Religion in America: churches, globalization, and democratization

Publication Type:

Miscellaneous

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Source:

Journal of interamerican studies and world affairs,; v. 41, no. 4;, School of International Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL, p.vi, 148 p. (1999)

ISBN:

Series ISSN: 0022-1937 ;

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LC: BL65.P7

Keywords:

Religion and politics -- Latin America.; Religious pluralism -- Latin America.; Globalization -- Religious aspects.; Democratization -- Latin America -- Religious aspects.

Notes:

Contents: Toward a new agenda for the study of religion in the Americas / Manuel A. Vásquez -- Churches as winners and losers in the network society / Phillip Berryman -- No land of milk and honey : women CEB activists in posttransition Brazil / Carol Ann Drogus -- Religious and social participation in war-torn areas of El Salvador / Ileana Gómez -- Believers and neighbors : "Huaycán is one and no one shall divide it" / Hortensia Muñoz -- Rethinking transnationalism : reconstructing national identities among Peruvian Catholics in New Jersey / Larissa Ruiz Baía -- Popular religions and the building of democracy in Latin America : saving the Tocquevillian parallel / Rowan Ireland. At head of title: Special issue./ "Winter 1999."/ Includes bibliographical references and index.