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The Third Church in Latin America: Religion and Globalization in Contemporary Latin America

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COMPETITIVE SPIRITS: LATIN AMERICA'S NEW RELIGIOUS ECONOMY. By ChesnutR. Andrew. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 170. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)

BETWEEN BABEL AND PENTECOST: TRANSNATIONAL PENTECOSTALISM IN AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA. Edited by CortenAndré and Marshall-FrataniRuth. (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2001. Pp. 312. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.)

REINVENTING RELIGIONS: SYNCRETISM AND TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS. Edited by GreenfieldSidney M. and DroogersAndré. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Pp. 232. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Virginia Garrard-Burnett*
Affiliation:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies University of Texas at Austin
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References

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2. See Carol Ann Drogus, Women, Religion and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Press, 1997); Cecília Mariz and Maria Campos Machados, “Pentecostalism and Women in Brazil,” in Edward L. Cleary and Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Power, Politics and Pentecostals in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).

3. The word “imaginaire” is often translated as “imaginary” but these authors, and many others, believe the English does not fully capture the breadth of the French term. See Jean-François Bayard, L'illusion ídentitaire (Paris: Fayard, 1996).

4. Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff, Modernity and its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 9.

5. Arjun Appaduri, “Disjuncture and Difference in Global Cultural Economy,” Public Culture 2 (2): 1–24 (1999).

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8. Walter Mignolo, “Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures,” in Frederic Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, The Cultures of Globalization (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), 44.

9. Gary Gossens, Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico (New York: Routledge, 1999).

10. Hans Seibers, “Globalization and Religious Creolization Among the Q'eqchi'es of Guatemala,” in Christian Smith and Joshua Propkopy, Latin American Religion in Motion (New York: Routledge, 1999), 261–74.

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15. Kwame Bediako, Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of Non-Western Religion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995).

16. Rasiah S. Sugirtharaja, The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Encounters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).