Manuel A. Vásquez
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A Place to Be
Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida's New Destinations
Rutgers University Press
A Place to Be is the first book to explore migration dynamics and community settlement among Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican immigrants in America's new South. The book adopts a fresh perspective to explore patterns of settlement in Florida, including the outlying areas of Miami and beyond. The stellar contributors from Latin America and the United States address the challenges faced by Latino immigrants, their cultural and religious practices, as well as the strategies used, as they move into areas experiencing recent large-scale immigration.
- Copyright year: 2009
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Rutgers University Press
Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-this 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.
Globalizing the Sacred
Religion Across the Americas
Rutgers University Press
By illustratingthe challenges that scholars and students must confront in order to understand the complexity of today’s religious landscape, Globalizing the Sacred makes both important theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of religion’s role in social change.
- Copyright year: 2003
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