Mario A Vásquez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 200821 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mario A Vásquez |
| PRENOMES | Mario A |
| SOBRENOME | Vásquez |
| ASSINATURA | VÁSQUEZ M A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3234-6260 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Retos de la política ambiental colombiana frente a los desafíos de la Ocde y los ODS
El objetivo del presente artículo es identificar los retos ambientales en Colombia frente a los desafíos de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos OCDE y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible ODS. En lo metodológico, el artículo es de tipo descriptivo- analítico, con base en la obtención de información de fuentes de tipos secundaria. Los hallazgos obtenidos, indican que se requiere mayor coordinación y capacidad entre las…
The ‘trans’ in the study of religion
The current phase of globalization has dramatically exposed the limitations of traditional approaches to religion. Religion is very much a key ingredient of globalization, travelling with transnational migrants and itinerant religious entrepreneurs and being beamed globally through electronic media, from TV to the Internet. Instead, ‘each religion is a flowing together of currents – some enforced as “orthodox” by institutions – traversing multipl…
Around Abby Day's Believing in Belonging
Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities - Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient…
From the body
In this article, the authors draw from their own experiences working among religious congregations that minister to unauthorized immigrants in the new destinations in the U.S. to reflect on the relationship between scholarship and advocacy. They argue that because of the scholar's embodied condition, his/her location in networks of relations characterized by power differentials, scholarship will always involve a measure of advocacy, invariably co…
Introduction to the religious lives of migrant minorities
This introduction describes the evolution of the conceptual framework that guided the research and analysis of findings from an international research project bringing a multi-sited and transnational perspective to the study of the religious lives of migrant minorities. The project began by identifying potential contributions that studies of religion, migration and diversity offered one another. To research these issues, the project members inves…
O Brasil na nova cartografia global da religião
Este artigo analisa as mudanças sociais, econômicas, culturais e religiosas que fizeram do Brasil um polo importante de produção do sagrado numa emergente cartografia global. Esta cartografia é policêntrica e entrecortada por uma miríade de redes transnacionais e multi-direcionais que facilitam o rápido movimento de pessoas, ideias, imagens, capitais e mercadorias. Entre os vetores que vamos examinar estão: imigrantes brasileiros que na tentativa…
Work at the Limits
This essay is a response to Paul Harvey’s, Sylvester Johnson’s, Kathryn Lofton’s, and Jennifer Scheper Hughes’s readings of More than Belief (2011)
On the value of genealogy, materiality, and networks
In response to the challenges posed by Steven Engler, Martha Finch, Mark Gardiner, Laura Harrington, Paul Johnson, and Michael Stausberg, this essay fleshes out key terms in More than Belief (2011), including genealogy, materialism, non-reductionism, and networks, showing their value in researching and theorizing about religion
An Author Meets His Critics
Good teaching is a craft. It requires constant honing. While perfection eludes most of us most of the time, our best days are intellectually generative, meaningful, and often quite fun. I intend this essay as a gesture in that same spirit
Portrait
José Casanova’s Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) has transformed the study of religion quite considerably. As I recall, the book was received relatively slowly in its first years. Casanova’s thesis gained momentum with the escalating focus on religion after 9/11 and the ensuing publicity for Huntington’s (1996) thesis of an imminent clash of civilizations. While many only then turned to the study of religion, Casanova had already prepa…
More Than Belief
INTRODUCTION I. EMBODIMENT 1. The Rise of Foundational Dualism and the Eclipse of the 2. Body Am I Entirely, and Nothing Else: Non-Reductive Materialism and the Struggle against Dualism 3. Toward a Materialist Phenomenology of Religion 4. The Phenomenology of Embodiment and the Study of Religion 5. Religious Bodies as Social Artifacts 6. Holding Social Constructionism in Check: The Recovery of the Active, Lived 7. A Cultural Neurophenomenology of…
The Limits of the Hydrodynamics of Religion
LIKE THOMAS TWEED, I am strongly interested in studying religions on the move, particularly as they are practiced in everyday life by transnational immigrants in their struggles to negotiate “simultaneous embeddedness,” to construct identities and spaces of livelihood that span national borders. From this perspective, Tweed's work has been extremely helpful. At the epistemological level, his call to abandon the search for “the view from everywher…
The Global Portability of Pneumatic Christianity
This article argues that Pentecostal Christianity is able to spread so quickly across the globe because it provides its adherents with the conceptual tools to deal with desire and materialism in a world of limited means and lack. It thus offers adherents an authentic belonging that is located globally as well as in the afterlife, rather than bound by geographical territory. This is particularly relevant for poor migrants - such as the African mig…
Studying Religion in Motion
This essay offers some theoretical and methodological reflections on how the study of religion might look if we were to assume that complexity, connectivity, and fluidity are preponderant features of our present age, without ignoring the strong countervailing global logics of segregation, surveillance, and control. After characterizing transnational, global, and diasporic modalities of religion in motion, the essay explores the strengths and weak…
Reason to Believe
Journal Article Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. By David Smilde Get access Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. By David Smilde. University of California Press, 2007. 262 pages. $21.95. Manuel A. Vásquez Manuel A. Vásquez University of Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Rel…
Estimating the length of incomplete long bones
We report on new standards for estimating long bone length from incomplete bones for use in forensic and archaeological contexts in Central America. The measurements we use closely follow those defined by Steele ([ 1970 ] Personal Identification in Mass Disasters; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution), but we add several new landmarks. We measured the femur, humerus, tibia, and fibula of 100 Maya skeletons (68 males, 32 females) recovered from…
Tracking Global Evangelical Christianity
Journal Article Tracking Global Evangelical Christianity Get access Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 157-173, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaar/71.1.157 Published: 01 March 2003
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Journal Article Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas. Anna L. Peterson, Manuel A. Vásquez, and Philip J. Williams (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, xii + 259 pp. $60.00 (Cloth), $22.00 (Paper) Get access Kathleen Garces-Foley Kathleen Garces-Foley University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue…
"Bowling Alone," Bishops' Biographies, and Baptism by Blood
Globalizing the Rainbow Madonna
This article examines the dynamics that have turned a recent Marian apparition on the window of a bank in Clearwater, Florida, from a local into a global phenomenon. Drawing from theories of globalization, we show how the apparition exemplifies what sociologist Roland Robertson refers to as the mutually implicative 'universalization of particularism and the particularization of universalism'. Among the factors analyzed are global pilgrimage, tran…
Pentecostalism, Collective Identity, and Transnationalism Among Salvadorans and Peruvians in the U.S
Journal Article Pentecostalism, Collective Identity, and Transnationalism Among Salvadorans and Peruvians in the U.S. Get access Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 617–636, https://doi…
Toward a New Agenda for the Study of Religion in the Americas
Recent scholarly work on Latin American religion reflects the pluralism and fragmentation of both religion and civil society. What effect will religious practice at the local, "micro" level have on institutions and structures at the "macro" level-namely, the process of democratization? A deeper, simultaneously more foundational and more encompassing definition of democratic politics might be involved. In an increasingly global context, the study …
Paulo Freire and the crisis of modernity
Brazilian educator Paulo Freire played an influential role in the development of grass-roots religious movements throughout the Third World from the 1960s to 1980s. Partaking of the Enlightenment affirmation of critical thinking as the key emancipatory tool, Freire's pedagogical method has empowered hitherto marginalized subjects. Toward the end of the 1980s, however, postmodernist critiques of Enlightenment rationality as domination have raised …
Structural Obstacles to Grassroots Pastoral Practice
Base Christian Communities (CEBs) represented a key element in progressive Catholicism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil where they attained a high level of development. This article examines the evolution of a CEB in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, exploring the obstacles to the production, circulation, and reception of the progressive Catholic message. While tensions and contradictions within the CEB contributed to its decline, they had…
Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities - Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient…
Studying Religion in Motion
This essay offers some theoretical and methodological reflections on how the study of religion might look if we were to assume that complexity, connectivity, and fluidity are preponderant features of our present age, without ignoring the strong countervailing global logics of segregation, surveillance, and control. After characterizing transnational, global, and diasporic modalities of religion in motion, the essay explores the strengths and weak…
The Global Portability of Pneumatic Christianity
This article argues that Pentecostal Christianity is able to spread so quickly across the globe because it provides its adherents with the conceptual tools to deal with desire and materialism in a world of limited means and lack. It thus offers adherents an authentic belonging that is located globally as well as in the afterlife, rather than bound by geographical territory. This is particularly relevant for poor migrants - such as the African mig…
Pentecostalism, Collective Identity, and Transnationalism Among Salvadorans and Peruvians in the U.S
Journal Article Pentecostalism, Collective Identity, and Transnationalism Among Salvadorans and Peruvians in the U.S. Get access Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 617–636, https://doi…
Globalizing the Rainbow Madonna
This article examines the dynamics that have turned a recent Marian apparition on the window of a bank in Clearwater, Florida, from a local into a global phenomenon. Drawing from theories of globalization, we show how the apparition exemplifies what sociologist Roland Robertson refers to as the mutually implicative 'universalization of particularism and the particularization of universalism'. Among the factors analyzed are global pilgrimage, tran…
Estimating the length of incomplete long bones
We report on new standards for estimating long bone length from incomplete bones for use in forensic and archaeological contexts in Central America. The measurements we use closely follow those defined by Steele ([ 1970 ] Personal Identification in Mass Disasters; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution), but we add several new landmarks. We measured the femur, humerus, tibia, and fibula of 100 Maya skeletons (68 males, 32 females) recovered from…
Toward a New Agenda for the Study of Religion in the Americas
Recent scholarly work on Latin American religion reflects the pluralism and fragmentation of both religion and civil society. What effect will religious practice at the local, "micro" level have on institutions and structures at the "macro" level-namely, the process of democratization? A deeper, simultaneously more foundational and more encompassing definition of democratic politics might be involved. In an increasingly global context, the study …
Introduction to the religious lives of migrant minorities
This introduction describes the evolution of the conceptual framework that guided the research and analysis of findings from an international research project bringing a multi-sited and transnational perspective to the study of the religious lives of migrant minorities. The project began by identifying potential contributions that studies of religion, migration and diversity offered one another. To research these issues, the project members inves…
O Brasil na nova cartografia global da religião
Este artigo analisa as mudanças sociais, econômicas, culturais e religiosas que fizeram do Brasil um polo importante de produção do sagrado numa emergente cartografia global. Esta cartografia é policêntrica e entrecortada por uma miríade de redes transnacionais e multi-direcionais que facilitam o rápido movimento de pessoas, ideias, imagens, capitais e mercadorias. Entre os vetores que vamos examinar estão: imigrantes brasileiros que na tentativa…
Structural Obstacles to Grassroots Pastoral Practice
Base Christian Communities (CEBs) represented a key element in progressive Catholicism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil where they attained a high level of development. This article examines the evolution of a CEB in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, exploring the obstacles to the production, circulation, and reception of the progressive Catholic message. While tensions and contradictions within the CEB contributed to its decline, they had…
Portrait
José Casanova’s Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) has transformed the study of religion quite considerably. As I recall, the book was received relatively slowly in its first years. Casanova’s thesis gained momentum with the escalating focus on religion after 9/11 and the ensuing publicity for Huntington’s (1996) thesis of an imminent clash of civilizations. While many only then turned to the study of religion, Casanova had already prepa…
The Limits of the Hydrodynamics of Religion
LIKE THOMAS TWEED, I am strongly interested in studying religions on the move, particularly as they are practiced in everyday life by transnational immigrants in their struggles to negotiate “simultaneous embeddedness,” to construct identities and spaces of livelihood that span national borders. From this perspective, Tweed's work has been extremely helpful. At the epistemological level, his call to abandon the search for “the view from everywher…
Tracking Global Evangelical Christianity
Journal Article Tracking Global Evangelical Christianity Get access Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 157-173, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaar/71.1.157 Published: 01 March 2003
Around Abby Day's Believing in Belonging
From the body
In this article, the authors draw from their own experiences working among religious congregations that minister to unauthorized immigrants in the new destinations in the U.S. to reflect on the relationship between scholarship and advocacy. They argue that because of the scholar's embodied condition, his/her location in networks of relations characterized by power differentials, scholarship will always involve a measure of advocacy, invariably co…
Paulo Freire and the crisis of modernity
Brazilian educator Paulo Freire played an influential role in the development of grass-roots religious movements throughout the Third World from the 1960s to 1980s. Partaking of the Enlightenment affirmation of critical thinking as the key emancipatory tool, Freire's pedagogical method has empowered hitherto marginalized subjects. Toward the end of the 1980s, however, postmodernist critiques of Enlightenment rationality as domination have raised …
Structural Obstacles to Grassroots Pastoral Practice
Base Christian Communities (CEBs) represented a key element in progressive Catholicism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil where they attained a high level of development. This article examines the evolution of a CEB in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, exploring the obstacles to the production, circulation, and reception of the progressive Catholic message. While tensions and contradictions within the CEB contributed to its decline, they had…
Pentecostalism, Collective Identity, and Transnationalism Among Salvadorans and Peruvians in the U.S
Journal Article Pentecostalism, Collective Identity, and Transnationalism Among Salvadorans and Peruvians in the U.S. Get access Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 67, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 617–636, https://doi…
Toward a New Agenda for the Study of Religion in the Americas
Recent scholarly work on Latin American religion reflects the pluralism and fragmentation of both religion and civil society. What effect will religious practice at the local, "micro" level have on institutions and structures at the "macro" level-namely, the process of democratization? A deeper, simultaneously more foundational and more encompassing definition of democratic politics might be involved. In an increasingly global context, the study …
Globalizing the Rainbow Madonna
This article examines the dynamics that have turned a recent Marian apparition on the window of a bank in Clearwater, Florida, from a local into a global phenomenon. Drawing from theories of globalization, we show how the apparition exemplifies what sociologist Roland Robertson refers to as the mutually implicative 'universalization of particularism and the particularization of universalism'. Among the factors analyzed are global pilgrimage, tran…
"Bowling Alone," Bishops' Biographies, and Baptism by Blood
Estimating the length of incomplete long bones
We report on new standards for estimating long bone length from incomplete bones for use in forensic and archaeological contexts in Central America. The measurements we use closely follow those defined by Steele ([ 1970 ] Personal Identification in Mass Disasters; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution), but we add several new landmarks. We measured the femur, humerus, tibia, and fibula of 100 Maya skeletons (68 males, 32 females) recovered from…
Tracking Global Evangelical Christianity
Journal Article Tracking Global Evangelical Christianity Get access Manuel A. Vasquez Manuel A. Vasquez Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 157-173, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaar/71.1.157 Published: 01 March 2003
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Journal Article Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas. Anna L. Peterson, Manuel A. Vásquez, and Philip J. Williams (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, xii + 259 pp. $60.00 (Cloth), $22.00 (Paper) Get access Kathleen Garces-Foley Kathleen Garces-Foley University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue…
Studying Religion in Motion
This essay offers some theoretical and methodological reflections on how the study of religion might look if we were to assume that complexity, connectivity, and fluidity are preponderant features of our present age, without ignoring the strong countervailing global logics of segregation, surveillance, and control. After characterizing transnational, global, and diasporic modalities of religion in motion, the essay explores the strengths and weak…
Reason to Believe
Journal Article Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. By David Smilde Get access Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. By David Smilde. University of California Press, 2007. 262 pages. $21.95. Manuel A. Vásquez Manuel A. Vásquez University of Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Rel…
The Limits of the Hydrodynamics of Religion
LIKE THOMAS TWEED, I am strongly interested in studying religions on the move, particularly as they are practiced in everyday life by transnational immigrants in their struggles to negotiate “simultaneous embeddedness,” to construct identities and spaces of livelihood that span national borders. From this perspective, Tweed's work has been extremely helpful. At the epistemological level, his call to abandon the search for “the view from everywher…
The Global Portability of Pneumatic Christianity
This article argues that Pentecostal Christianity is able to spread so quickly across the globe because it provides its adherents with the conceptual tools to deal with desire and materialism in a world of limited means and lack. It thus offers adherents an authentic belonging that is located globally as well as in the afterlife, rather than bound by geographical territory. This is particularly relevant for poor migrants - such as the African mig…
More Than Belief
INTRODUCTION I. EMBODIMENT 1. The Rise of Foundational Dualism and the Eclipse of the 2. Body Am I Entirely, and Nothing Else: Non-Reductive Materialism and the Struggle against Dualism 3. Toward a Materialist Phenomenology of Religion 4. The Phenomenology of Embodiment and the Study of Religion 5. Religious Bodies as Social Artifacts 6. Holding Social Constructionism in Check: The Recovery of the Active, Lived 7. A Cultural Neurophenomenology of…
Portrait
José Casanova’s Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) has transformed the study of religion quite considerably. As I recall, the book was received relatively slowly in its first years. Casanova’s thesis gained momentum with the escalating focus on religion after 9/11 and the ensuing publicity for Huntington’s (1996) thesis of an imminent clash of civilizations. While many only then turned to the study of religion, Casanova had already prepa…
Work at the Limits
This essay is a response to Paul Harvey’s, Sylvester Johnson’s, Kathryn Lofton’s, and Jennifer Scheper Hughes’s readings of More than Belief (2011)
On the value of genealogy, materiality, and networks
In response to the challenges posed by Steven Engler, Martha Finch, Mark Gardiner, Laura Harrington, Paul Johnson, and Michael Stausberg, this essay fleshes out key terms in More than Belief (2011), including genealogy, materialism, non-reductionism, and networks, showing their value in researching and theorizing about religion
An Author Meets His Critics
Good teaching is a craft. It requires constant honing. While perfection eludes most of us most of the time, our best days are intellectually generative, meaningful, and often quite fun. I intend this essay as a gesture in that same spirit
Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities - Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient…
From the body
In this article, the authors draw from their own experiences working among religious congregations that minister to unauthorized immigrants in the new destinations in the U.S. to reflect on the relationship between scholarship and advocacy. They argue that because of the scholar's embodied condition, his/her location in networks of relations characterized by power differentials, scholarship will always involve a measure of advocacy, invariably co…
Introduction to the religious lives of migrant minorities
This introduction describes the evolution of the conceptual framework that guided the research and analysis of findings from an international research project bringing a multi-sited and transnational perspective to the study of the religious lives of migrant minorities. The project began by identifying potential contributions that studies of religion, migration and diversity offered one another. To research these issues, the project members inves…
O Brasil na nova cartografia global da religião
Este artigo analisa as mudanças sociais, econômicas, culturais e religiosas que fizeram do Brasil um polo importante de produção do sagrado numa emergente cartografia global. Esta cartografia é policêntrica e entrecortada por uma miríade de redes transnacionais e multi-direcionais que facilitam o rápido movimento de pessoas, ideias, imagens, capitais e mercadorias. Entre os vetores que vamos examinar estão: imigrantes brasileiros que na tentativa…
Around Abby Day's Believing in Belonging
The ‘trans’ in the study of religion
The current phase of globalization has dramatically exposed the limitations of traditional approaches to religion. Religion is very much a key ingredient of globalization, travelling with transnational migrants and itinerant religious entrepreneurs and being beamed globally through electronic media, from TV to the Internet. Instead, ‘each religion is a flowing together of currents – some enforced as “orthodox” by institutions – traversing multipl…
Retos de la política ambiental colombiana frente a los desafíos de la Ocde y los ODS
El objetivo del presente artículo es identificar los retos ambientales en Colombia frente a los desafíos de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos OCDE y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible ODS. En lo metodológico, el artículo es de tipo descriptivo- analítico, con base en la obtención de información de fuentes de tipos secundaria. Los hallazgos obtenidos, indican que se requiere mayor coordinación y capacidad entre las…
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