Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas

by Marie F. Marquardt and Manuel A. Vasquez

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"