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Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas

Author : Anna Lisa Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813529325
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas written by Anna Lisa Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume resulted from a collaborative research project into responses of Protestant and Catholic religious communities in the Americas to the challenges of globalization. Contributors from the fields of religion, anthropology, political science, and sociology draw on fieldwork in Peru, El Salvador, and the United States to show the interplay of economic globalization, migration, and growing religious pluralism in Latin America. Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-the book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world. Religious communities are seen as both peaceful venues for people to articulate their needs, and forums for building participatory democracies in the Americas. Finally, the contributors examine how religion enfranchises poor women, youths, and people displaced by war or economic change and, at the same time, drives social movements that seek to strengthen family and community bonds disrupted by migration and political violence.

Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas

Author : Anna Lisa Peterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9783540428510
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas written by Anna Lisa Peterson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas

Author : Anna Lisa Peterson
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ISBN 13 : 9780813529318
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Religion and Globalization

Author : Peter Beyer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803989177
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Globalization written by Peter Beyer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his exploration of the interaction between religion and worldwide social and cultural change, the author examines the major theories of global change and discusses the ways in which such change impinges on contemporary religious practice, meaning and influence. Beyer explores some of the key issues in understanding the shape of religion today, including religion as culture and as social system, pure and applied religion, privatized and publicly influential religion, and liberal versus conservative religions. He goes on to apply these issues to five contemporary illustrative cases: the American Christian Right; Liberation Theology movements in Latin America; the Islamic Revolution in Iran; Zionists in Israel; and religiou

Religion, Globalization and Culture

Author : Peter Beyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004154078
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Globalization and Culture written by Peter Beyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of religion and globalization is complex, susceptible to a great variety of approaches. This book combines contributions from many authors who examine a wide range of subjects ranging from overall theoretical considerations to detailed regional perspectives. No single understanding of either religion or globalization is privileged.

A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas

Author : Michelle A. Gonzalez
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479835234
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas written by Michelle A. Gonzalez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas argues that we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding its marginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religious studies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberation theology, is still useful, but it must be reframed to attend to the ways in which religion is actually experienced on the ground. That is, a liberation theology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out of touch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth, where the focus is not on inequality or social action but on individual relationships with the divine. By drawing on a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, this volume provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts, and then shows how theology can be reframed to better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real people the theologians' work is meant to represent. Informed by the dialogue partners explored throughout the text, this volume presents a hemispheric approach to discussing lived religious movements. While not dismissive of liberation theologies, this approach is critical of their past and offers challenges to their future as well as suggestions for preventing their untimely demise. It is clear that the liberation theologies of tomorrow cannot look like the liberation theologies of today.

The Social Gospel

Author : Ronald Cedric White
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877220848
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Social Gospel written by Ronald Cedric White and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author note: Ronald C. White, Jr. is Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. >P>C. Howard Hopkins is Professor of History Emeritus at Rider College and Director of the John R. Mott Biography Project. He is the author of The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism.

Seeds of the Kingdom

Author : Anna L. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190293063
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Seeds of the Kingdom written by Anna L. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these skeptical and disillusioned times, there are still groups of people scattered throughout the world who are trying to live out utopian dreams. These communities challenge the inevitability and morality of dominant political and economic models. By putting utopian religious ethics into practice, they attest to the real possibility of social alternatives. In Seeds of the Kingdom, Anna L. Peterson reflects on the experiences of two very different communities, one inhabited by impoverished former refugees in the mountains of El Salvador and the other by Amish farmers in the Midwestern U.S. What makes these groups stand out among advocates of environmental protection, political justice, and sustainable development is their religious orientation. They aim, without apology, to embody the reign of God on earth. The Salvadoran community is grounded in Roman Catholic social thought, while the Amish adhere to Anabaptist tradition. Peterson offers a detailed portrait of these communities' history, social organization, religious life, environmental values, and agricultural practices. She discovers both practical and ideological commonalities in these two comparatively successful and sustainable communities, including a strong collective identity, deep attachment to local landscapes, a desire to preserve non-human as well as human lives, and, perhaps unexpectedly, a utopian horizon that provides both goals and the hope of reaching them. By examining the process by which people struggle to live according to a transcendent value system, she sheds light on both the actual and the potential place of religion in public life. Peterson argues that the Amish and Salvadoran communities, geographically and culturally removed from the industrialized West, have relevance for the political and environmental problems of the developed world. These communities have succeeded in the face of significant internal and external challenges, offering important practical and theoretical lessons on how to achieve ecological sustainability and social justice in the wider world.

Globalizing the Sacred

Author : Manuel A. Vásquez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813532851
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing the Sacred written by Manuel A. Vásquez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. An exploration of how globalization affects the evolving roles of religion in the Americas.

New Visions for the Americas

Author : David B. Batstone
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Visions for the Americas written by David B. Batstone and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the approach of a new millennium, profound economic, social, and geopolitical changes have transformed the global map and shaken the contours of liberation thinking, North and South. Although the overarching hemispheric issue remains justice, it is more likely now to erupt in contexts of environment, basic economic rights, systems of adjudication, the survival of indigenous peoples, and the liberation of women worldwide. To address this new context of liberation, especially around structural issues of race, class, and gender, this volume presents the views of fourteen of today's most incisive religious leaders and thinkers - male and female, North and South, black and white, theologians and activists.

To Change the World

Author : James Davison Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019977952X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book To Change the World written by James Davison Hunter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the 21st century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive--and provocative--answers to these questions. Hunter begins with a penetrating appraisal of the most popular models of world-changing among Christians today, highlighting the ways they are inherently flawed and therefore incapable of generating the change to which they aspire. Because change implies power, all Christian eventually embrace strategies of political engagement. Hunter offers a trenchant critique of the political theologies of the Christian Right and Left and the Neo-Anabaptists, taking on many respected leaders, from Charles Colson to Jim Wallis and Stanley Hauerwas. Hunter argues that all too often these political theologies worsen the very problems they are designed to solve. What is really needed is a different paradigm of Christian engagement with the world, one that Hunter calls "faithful presence"--an ideal of Christian practice that is not only individual but institutional; a model that plays out not only in all relationships but in our work and all spheres of social life. He offers real-life examples, large and small, of what can be accomplished through the practice of "faithful presence." Such practices will be more fruitful, Hunter argues, more exemplary, and more deeply transfiguring than any more overtly ambitious attempts can ever be. Written with keen insight, deep faith, and profound historical grasp, To Change the World will forever change the way Christians view and talk about their role in the modern world.

Globalization and Theology

Author : Joerg Rieger
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426700652
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Theology written by Joerg Rieger and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology can trumpet fresh views of globalization

Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions

Author : Helen Rose Ebaugh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387257037
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions written by Helen Rose Ebaugh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook for Religion and Social Institutions is written for sociologists who study a variety of sub-disciplines and are interested in recent studies and theoretical approaches that relate religious variables to their particular area of interest. The handbook focuses on several major themes: - Social Institutions such as Politics, Economics, Education, Health and Social Welfare - Family and the Life Cycle - Inequality - Social Control - Culture - Religion as a Social Institution and in a Global Perspective This handbook will be of interest to social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and other researchers whose study brings them in contact with the study of religion and its impact on social institutions.

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America

Author : Paul Freston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199721246
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America written by Paul Freston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic outside the West, despite often being labeled as 'underdeveloped.' Scholars disagree whether Latin American Protestantism, as a fast-growing and predominantly lower-class phenomenon, will encourage a political culture that is repressive and authoritarian, or if it will have democratizing effects. Drawing from a range of sources, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America provides case studies of five countries: Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The contributors, mainly scholars based in Latin America, bring first hand-knowledge to their chapters. The result is a groundbreaking work that explores the relationship between Latin American evangelicalism and politics, its influences, manifestations, and prospects for the future. Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America is one of four volumes in the series Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South, which seeks to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? At a time when the global-political impact of another revivalist and scriptural religion - Islam - fuels vexed debate among analysts the world over, these volumes offer an unusual comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics.

The Rise of Network Christianity

Author : Brad Christerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019063569X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Network Christianity written by Brad Christerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, when traditionally organized religious groups are seeing declining membership and participation, are networks of independent churches growing so explosively? Drawing on in-depth interviews with leaders and participants, The Rise of Network Christianity explains the social forces behind the fastest-growing form of Christianity in the U.S., which Brad Christerson and Richard Flory have labeled "Independent Network Charismatic." This form of Christianity emphasizes aggressive engagement with the supernatural-including healing, direct prophecies from God, engaging in "spiritual warfare" against demonic spirits--and social transformation. Christerson and Flory argue that macro-level social changes since the 1970s, including globalization and the digital revolution, have given competitive advantages to religious groups organized as networks rather than traditionally organized congregations and denominations. Network forms of governance allow for experimentation with controversial supernatural practices, innovative finances and marketing, and a highly participatory, unorthodox, and experiential faith, which is attractive in today's unstable religious marketplace. Christerson and Flory hypothesize that as more religious groups imitate this type of governance, religious belief and practice will become more experimental, more orientated around practice than theology, more shaped by the individual religious "consumer," and authority will become more highly concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions. Network Christianity, they argue, is the future of Christianity in America.

Boundless Faith

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943066
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Boundless Faith written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.

Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana

Author : Lois Ann Lorentzen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391163
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana written by Lois Ann Lorentzen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic research by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and activists, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana illuminates the role that religion plays in the civic and political experiences of new migrants in the United States. By bringing innovative questions and theoretical frameworks to bear on the experiences of Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, Salvadoran, and Vietnamese migrants, the contributors demonstrate how groups and individuals negotiate multiple religious, cultural, and national identities, and how religious faiths are transformed through migration. Taken together, their essays show that migrants’ religious lives are much more than replications of home in a new land. They reflect a process of adaptation to new physical and cultural environments, and an ongoing synthesis of cultural elements from the migrants’ countries of origin and the United States. As they conducted research, the contributors not only visited churches and temples but also single-room-occupancy hotels, brothels, tattoo-removal clinics, and the streets of San Francisco, El Salvador, Mexico, and Vietnam. Their essays include an exploration of how faith-based organizations can help LGBT migrants surmount legal and social complexities, an examination of transgendered sex workers’ relationship with the unofficial saint Santisima Muerte, a comparison of how a Presbyterian mission and a Buddhist temple in San Francisco help Chinese immigrants to acculturate, and an analysis of the transformation of baptismal rites performed by Mayan migrants. The voices of gang members, Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhist nuns, members of Pentecostal churches, and many others animate this collection. In the process of giving voice to these communities, the contributors interrogate theories about acculturation, class, political and social capital, gender and sexuality, the sociology of religion, transnationalism, and globalization. The collection includes twenty-one photographs by Jerry Berndt. Contributors. Luis Enrique Bazan, Kevin M. Chun, Hien Duc Do, Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola, Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Sarah Horton, Cymene Howe, Mimi Khúc, Jonathan H. X. Lee, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Andrea Maison, Dennis Marzan, Rosalina Mira, Claudine del Rosario, Susanna Zaraysky