{"product_id":"globalizing-the-sacred-manuel-a-v-squez-9780813532851","title":"Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, Manuel A. V疽quez 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy illustrating\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe challenges that scholars and students must confront in order to understand the complexity of today's religious landscape, \u003ci\u003eGlobalizing the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e makes both important theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of religion's role in social change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Manuel A. V疽quez, Marie F. Marquardt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081353285X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813532851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2004 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 1096","brand":"Manuel A. V疽quez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059826618623,"sku":"9780813532851","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0fa916fb-bdb7-459b-99eb-919e2fbfa003.jpg?v=1685060554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/globalizing-the-sacred-manuel-a-v-squez-9780813532851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}