Lois Ann Lorentzen

Biographic Data

ID205362
NAMELois Ann Lorentzen
GIVEN NAMESLois Ann
FAMILY NAMELorentzen
SIGNATURELORENTZEN L A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of San Francisco
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Christianity and Ecology in Latin America

    Lois Ann Lorentzen, David Thomas Orique et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Latin American…2020

    This chapter explores Christianity and ecology in Latin America by charting the religious beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church and liberation theologians, ecofeminist movements, and Protestant faith traditions (emphasizing evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism). In each case, religious symbols, theologies, rituals, and movements are analyzed as they relate to the nonhuman world. The chapter begins with initial contact between Ro…

  • Immigrant Integration Through Mediating Social Institutions: Issues and Strategies

    Jessica Martone, Danielle Dunand Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Practice2014Cited by: 10References: 13

    With nearly 40 million foreign-born residents, the United States is the country with the largest immigrant population in the world (Nwosu, Batalova, & Auclair, 2014). This amounts to 13% of the current US population and has fueled debates about the role of immigrants in American society and about what it means to be American (Batalova & Lee, 2012; Hing, 2004). The issue of immigrant integration is at the center of this debate and is also the focu…

  • Devotional Crossings: Transgender Sex Workers, Santisima Muerte, and Spiritual Solidarity in Guadalajara and San Francisco

    C Howe, Susanna Zaraysky et al.CHAPTERReligion at the Corner of Bliss…2009

  • Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities

    Open AccessCymene Howe, Lois Ann Lorentzen et al.BOOKReligion at the Corner of Bliss…2009

    Contents Preface. Advancing Theory and Method: Lois Ann Lorentzen, Kevin M. Gender and Sexualities Devotional Crossings: Transgender Sex Workers, Santisima Muerte, and Spiritual Solidarity in Guadalajara and San Francisco: Cymene Howe, Susanna Zaraysky, and Lois Ann Lorentzen Sexual Borderlands: Lesbian and Gay Migration, Human Rights, and the Metropolitan Community Church: Cymene Howe El Milagro Esta en Casa: Gender and Private and Public Empowe…

  • Transgender Sex Workers and Sexual Transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco

    Open AccessC Howe, Susanna Zaraysky et al.ARTICLELatin American Perspectives2008Cited by: 12References: 27

    Detailed study of microcommunities of transgender sex workers in Guadalajara and San Francisco reveals a close relationship between migratory motives, economic aspirations, and sexuality. The resonance of both cities as "gay meccas" in their respective nation-states provides a background for the operation of these imagined sites of tolerance in transgender sex workers' lives. Migration is gendered and sexualized, and, despite infra-structural sup…

  • Religion and Environmental Struggles in Latin America

    Lois Ann Lorentzen, Leavitt-Alcantara SalvadorBOOKThe Oxford handbook of religion…2006

    Exploring traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis, this work looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions and examines religious participation in environmental politics

  • Religion and violence against nature

    Open AccessLois Ann Lorentzen, Lois LorentzenARTICLEScripta Instituti Donneriani…2006

    Most of us are well aware of the environmental crisis of our day. Yet, scholars of religion or peace studies rarely consider en­vironmental issues when theorizing about violence. Why think about religion when we ponder environmental degradation? Religion provides a framework by which we can understand a group’s relationship to non-human nature and to actions on behalf of the environment. As is the case with human-to-human violence, religious ideo…

  • El milagro está en casa: Gender and Private/Public Empowerment in a Migrant Pentecostal Church

    Open AccessLois Ann Lorentzen, Rosalina MiraARTICLELatin American Perspectives2005Cited by: 10References: 37

  • Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas

    Open AccessLois Ann LorentzenARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2004

  • Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium

    Muhammad Naguib Al-Attas, Yoko Arisaka et al.BOOKTechnology and Cultural Values2003

  • Ecofeminism and Globalization: Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion

    Heather Eaton, Lois Ann LorentzenBOOKEcofeminism and Globalization2003

    Part 1 Foreword Part 3 Introduction Part 4 I. Economic Globalization, the Environment, and Gender Chapter 5 1. Gender and the Environment Chapter 6 2. Can Ecofeminism Withstand Globalization? Part 7 II. Challenges to Ecofeminism: Concrete Cases Chapter 8 3. Women and Sacred Groves in Coastal Kenya: A Contribution to the Ecofeminist Debate Chapter 9 4. Challenging Ecofeminism: The Case of Chiapas Chapter 10 5. Traditions of Prudence Lost: A Tragic…

  • Maxican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries

    Lois Ann LorentzenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2002

  • Migrant Gangs, Religion and Tattoo Removal

    Open AccessLuis Enrique Bazán, Liliana Harris et al.ARTICLEPeace Review2002Cited by: 2

    (2002). Migrant Gangs, Religion and Tattoo Removal. Peace Review: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 379-383

  • Women, Migration, and the Pentecostal Experience

    Open AccessRosalina Mira, Lois Ann LorentzenARTICLEPeace Review2002References: 2

    (2002). Women, Migration, and the Pentecostal Experience. Peace Review: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 421-425

  • Has Religion Gone Global

    Jan Bender Shetler, Dwight N Hopkins et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2002

  • Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases

    Open AccessEnrique Dussel, Dwight N Hopkins et al.BOOKReligions/Globalizations2001

    For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope. But religion also has served as the foundation for national differences, racial conflicts, class exploitation, and gender discrimination. Indeed, religious spirituality, having been transformed by contemporary economic and political events, remains both empowering and controversial. Religions/Globalizations examines the extent to w…

  • The Earthist Challenge to Economism: A Theological Critique of the World Bank

    Lois Ann LorentzenARTICLEEnvironmental Ethics2001

  • What's Postmodern about Earth's Insights?

    Lois Ann LorentzenARTICLEWorldviews Global Religions…1997

    Callicott convinces us that diverse religious traditions provide resources in constructing an environmental ethic. However, his use of the term postmodern, while rejecting most of postmodern thought, is not helpful for his project. Callicott also presumes that nonanthropocentrism and holism are necessary for a universal environmental ethic, and provides only one version of ecofeminism. There are reasons to prefer pluralism in environmental ethics…

  • What's Postmodern about Earth's Insights

    Lois Ann LorentzenARTICLEWorldviews Global Religions…1997

    Callicott convinces us that diverse religious traditions provide resources in constructing an environmental ethic. However, his use of the term postmodern, while rejecting most of postmodern thought, is not helpful for his project. Callicott also presumes that nonanthropocentrism and holism are necessary for a universal environmental ethic, and provides only one version of ecofeminism. There are reasons to prefer pluralism in environmental ethics…

  • Popular resistance and material culture

    Open AccessLois Ann Lorentzen, Lois LorentzenARTICLEPeace Review1995References: 1

    Entering the San Salvador plaza, I donned the green and white Soy Ecologista headband handed to me. Laughing and chatting with friends, I enjoyed the events of the ecofiesta sponsored by the Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology (CESTA). I tasted soy products, pedaled bicycle‐powered flour mills, and treated a cold with herbal products. For me, the visiting gringa, this was a party. For my friends, the fiesta was one of many heated battles…

  • Our poetry will inhabit this land forever

    Open AccessLois Ann LorentzenARTICLEPeace Review1993

    “Mujer Salvadorena . . . woman whose hands of tenderness and strength will work for a new society,” sang the lovely voices of Grupo Teosinte. It was my first visit to El Salvador and surrounded by peasant women and men, I listened to a song celebrating the women of Chalatenango, a particularly war‐torn area of El Salvador. The group was part of ASTAC, the Salvadoran Association of Workers in Art and Culture, and the poetry set to music, audience …