Globalizing the Sacred: religion across the Americas

Publication Type:

Book

Source:

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, p.viii, 255 p. (2003)

ISBN:

ISBN: 0813532841 (alk. p

Call Number:

LC: BL2500; Dewey: 306.6

Keywords:

Sociology of Religion; Globalization -- Religious aspects.

Notes:

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 -- Pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? : John Paul II's civilization of love -- "Blitzing" Central America : the politics of religious broadcasting. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.

Sponsored By

The Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the U.S. (ACHTUS)

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