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Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas Paperback – July 16, 2003

by Manuel A. Vasquez (Author), Marie F. Marquardt (Author)
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French and German tourists join Mexican migrant workers to venerate the image of the Virgin Mary at a strip mall in Florida; Latino gang members, deported from the United States to home countries they barely know, find Jesus in transnational churches; U.S. evangelicals use electronic media to preach a “neo liberal” gospel of wealth and health to landless peasants in remote indigenous villages in Guatemala. These are just some examples of how religion in the Americas today intersects in complex ways with the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of globalization.

Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, Manuel A. Vásquez 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 sociology of religion, such as the secularization and rational choice models. Further, the book offers alternative theoretical and methodological tools to understand the increasing complexity of religious life in the Americas.

By illustratingthe challenges that scholars and students must confront in order to understand the complexity of today’s religious landscape, Globalizing the Sacred makes both important theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of religion’s role in social change.
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    Rutgers University Press
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    July 16, 2003
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  6. ISBN-10
    081353285X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0813532851
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Globalizing the Sacred breaks new ground in our understanding of the transnational role of religion. Based on case studies in the Americas, this book challenges modernist assumptions about the ways Christians communicate and interact in an increasingly global world. Vßsquez and Marquardt demonstrate a sophisticated knowledge of transnational theory as they engage debates related to hybrid identities, the transformative impact of the Internet, and the increasing flow of migrants across national borders. -- Donald E. Miller ― executive director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Souther

"A magnificent exploration of the multiple ways local religion shapes and is shaped by its institutional, regional, and global contexts. Locating their analysis at the crossroads between religious studies and the emerging literature on globalization, Vßsquez and Marquardt masterfully interweave theory and case studies to provide essential insights for understanding religion and social change in the twenty-first century."-, -- Timothy Matovina ― director, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Not

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Manuel A. Vásquez is an associate professor of religion at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity and is the co-editor of Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas (Rutgers University Press).

Marie Friedmann Marquardt is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology of religion at Emory University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rutgers University Press; None edition (July 16, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 081353285X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813532851
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1430L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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    Marie Marquardt is an author of young adult novels, a college professor, and an immigration advocate. Her debut novel, Dream Things True (St. Martin’s Press), was a 2015 YA BEA Buzz Panel choice praised in Kirkus as a “worthy examination of undocumented immigration in the American South through the lens of young love.”

    Her second novel, THE RADIUS OF US, reflects the experience of Latin American teenagers fleeing gang violence and seeking asylum in the United States. It’s an issue that Marie Marquardt cares about profoundly, and she believes that connecting to it emotionally it can be a powerful antidote to the hate, fear, and misunderstanding that plagues our society.

    She is a Scholar-in-Residence at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and has been an advocate for social justice for Latin American immigrants in the South for two decades. She has published many articles and co-authored two non-fiction books on the issues involved and has been interviewed on National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and BBC America, among many other media outlets. She is also the co-chair of El Refugio, a Georgia non-profit that serves detained immigrants and their families.

    Marie Marquardt is a proud member of the We Need Diverse Books team and lives in a busy household in Decatur, Georgia with her spouse, four children, a dog and a bearded dragon.

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  • V. McNiff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and truly relevant
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    Heard the author being interviewed on NPR and bought the book immediately. Well worth reading--and it is a serious read. An important and fascinating one that keeps you going. Well written, humorous at times, self-aware, a great snapshot of whats happening in our country today. Really think its a must read.
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  • James V. Dougans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Religious Change in the Americas
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2009
    "Globalizing the Sacred, Religion Across the Americas" will help you understand religious change in the Americas: North, Central and South Americas. If you are planning, or in the midst of, an outreach to Latinos then consider reading this book. If you are a Norteamericano and want to better understand the future of U.S. religion as it encounters late modernity then you too may find this book enlightening.

    The chapter, "Miracles at the Border" is alone worth the price of the book. Authors Vasquez and Marquardt tell the fascinating history of the Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle in San Juan, Texas. The Shrine unites Mexican and American, English speaking and Spanish speaking. The result is a national shrine where a mariachi band plays praise and worship songs, as well as Hebrew hymns.

    The chapter "Crossing the Electronic Frontier" asks the question, "will computer mediated communications (CMC's) further deplete social capital (think bowling alone) or create a new electronic democracy in which people are judged not on their conveyances, but on their ideas and intellect. The authors found that most churches see CMC's as extending the local, the community of believers, but not as a substitute for face to face community.

    The chapter "Latino Churches and the New South" details two Latino churches in Doraville, Georgia. One church is Catholic, the other Lutheran. Both churches help worshippers sustain their status as transmigrants. But the Catholic church challenges the status quo more. The Lutheran church emphasizes learning how to assimilate. both churches contain images and items from home. But at the Catholic church there is a statue of liberty with a question mark. The Lutheran church has a large U.S. flag.
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