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The Jewish Family in Latin America: Transnational Dialectics of Integration and Distinctiveness
Latin America is characterized by socio-ethnic, economic, and political diversities and differing national constellations. The region is marked by...
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America, the New Jerusalem, and Anti-immigrant Discourse
For many Christians, the Book of Revelation provides hope and the promise of ultimate refuge and rest. Yet the book undeniably reaches its...
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From the Bairros to North America: Reverse Mission Trajectories
This chapter considers how the reverse mission phenomenon contributes to the shape of Pentecostalism in North America. Now found throughout North...
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The Noble House of La Virtual QTL Voguing Queer Liberation Theologies in Latin America Since Marcella Althaus-Reid
This chapter examines the paths of Latin American queer theologies. It contributes a roadmap to understand the course of queer theologies in Latin...
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Experience of Muslims in North America
The chapter provides an overview of the history of Muslims in North America, tracing from the beginning of slavery to the present day. The discussion...
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Experience of Muslims in North America
The chapter provides an overview of the history of Muslims in North America, tracing from the beginning of slavery to the present day. The discussion...
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Introduction: Indigenous Churches—Christian Affiliations and Inter-denominational Relationships in Lowland South America
The introduction to the book Indigenous Churches: Christian Affiliations and Inter-denominational Relationships in Lowland South America situates the...
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Experience of Muslims in Latin America
Muslim presence in Latin America has characteristics in common in the various countries in the region. At the same time, each case should be...
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The Future of Metaphysical Religion in America
This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the present, dynamic state of metaphysical religion in America. It includes chapters that: put...
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Liberation Theology and Other Theologies in Latin America: Challenges for Today
Although the article values the theoretical and practical advances of Liberation Theology, it also emphasizes a critical view of its limits in light...
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Mind, Body, and Spirit: Metaphysical Healing in America
Metaphysical religion appeals to contemporary Americans for many reasons. One of them is that metaphysical thought provides an intellectual...
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Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities
I go home to my hometown in Nebraska every year. I am always struck by the immense cultural abyss and different moral values that separate my...
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America and the Holocaust: Reflections on Three Quarters of a Century and the Development of Holocaust Consciousness in American Society
At this moment as the youngest of the survivors are now in their eighties and nineties, when the Holocaust is making the transition between living...
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Negative Interest: The Dual Currency Model and the Journey to America
This chapter breaks down Robert Eisler’s plan for creating a dual currency system with one currency for small cash payments and one for the unit of...
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Public Spirit as Mediating Influence Between Tocqueville’s “Spirit of Religion” and “Spirit of Freedom”
Tocqueville expressed surprise that two distinct and oft-warring spirits, “the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom” were in harmony in...
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Mormons in North America, Latin America, the South Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Asia: An Overview
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced significant membership growth within the past century. Church membership reached one...
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Panama, Montevideo and Havana and the Emergence of a De-colonial and Indigenous Latin American Protestant Identity: 1916–1929
Latin America and the Caribbean were subjects of colonization and the realm of religion was not an exception. Starting with the Roman Catholic...
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Epilogue: Why the Jews Flourished in America
This chapter discusses alternative hypotheses that have been offered as to why American Jews have experienced the remarkable educational and economic...
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A Marriage of Opposites: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy
Coming of age in post-Revolutionary France, Tocqueville observed that the animosity between “partisans of freedom” and people of religion had...
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The Current Status of Latin American Liberation Theology
This text examines the new socio-historical context in which Liberation Theology is elaborating new perspectives. Through the analysis of the main...