Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas

by Marie F. Marquardt and Manuel A. Vasquez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081353285X
• ISBN13: 9780813532851
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"