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Toward a New Agenda for the Study of Religion in the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Manuel A. Vásquez
Manuel A. Vásquez*
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University of Florida
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Abstract

Recent scholarly work on Latin American religion reflects the pluralism and fragmentation of both religion and civil society. What effect will religious practice at the local, “micro” level have on institutions and structures at the “macro” level-namely, the process of democratization? A deeper, simultaneously more foundational and more encompassing definition of democratic politics might be involved. In an increasingly global context, the study of religion and social change in Latin America and among U.S. Latinos needs to take a comparative, truly interamerican approach.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 41 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Religion in America: Churches, Globalization, and Democratization , Winter 1999 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © University of Miami 1999

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