Globalizing the Sacred
Subtitle: Religion Across the Americas
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780813532844
Subjects: Religion: general; Religion and sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology of Religion; Sociology; Latin America; USA; Religious aspects; Emigration & Immigration; America; Globalization; Religion
First sentence: French and German tourists alongside Mexican migrant workers venerate the image of the Virgin Mary in 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 "neoliberal" gospel of wealth and health to remote indigenous villages in Guatemala.