Books written by Manuel A. Vásquez
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Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas
Griffiths , Nicholas . 1999. Introduction to Spiritual Encounters : Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America , ed . Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press .
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More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion
Political scientist and historian William Sewell, who has been strongly influenced by Geertz, argues that the Geertzian view of the biological necessity of culture is a “brilliant piece of materialist argumentation.
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A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida's New Destinations
David Kirp, Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 6. See Ferdinand Tonnies, Community and Society (Edison, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1988). He writes that community ...
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More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion
This book challenges the traditional idea that religions can be understood primarily as texts to be interpreted, decoded, or translated.
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The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity
Focusing on a Catholic community near Rio de Janeiro, Manuel A. Vásquez's incisive study shows how economic and political changes have affected religious practices, and argues that the plight of progressive Catholicism in Brazil forms part ...
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Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
This volume resulted from a collaborative research project into responses of Protestant and Catholic religious communities in the Americas to the challenges of globalization.
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Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
A myth-busting account of the tragedies, trials, and successes of undocumented immigration in the United States.