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Popular Religion and Religious Hybridity in Latin America

David Tavárez: "Naming the Trinity: From Ideologies of Translation to Dialectics of Reception in Colonial Nahua Texts, 1547-1771" in Colonial Latin American Review, 9 (1), 2000. 21-47.

Jennifer Scheper Hughes: Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from Conquest to the Present , 2010. Oxford.

The Religions of the African Diaspora in the Americas

Paul Christopher Johnson: Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomble, 2005. Oxford.

Lindsay Hale: Hearing the Mermaid’s Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio de Janeiro, 2009. University of New Mexico Press. chapter 1, “The Invisible Way,” and chapter 3, “Mistura.” .

Competition: Traditional Protestantism and Pentecostalism in Latin America

David Stoll: "The Invasion of the Sects" in Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth,

R. Andrew Chesnut: Competitive Spirits: Latin America’s New Religious Economy , 2003. Oxford.

Virginia Garrard-Burnett: "Ríos Montt and the New Guatemala" in Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit, Guatemala Under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982-1983 , 2010. Oxford. pp. 52-84.

Elizabeth McAlister: "From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical" in Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 41(2) , 187–215.

Further Hybridizing: Identity and Religion in Modern Latin America

John Burdick: "What is the Color of the Holy Spirit? Pentecostalism and Black Identity in Brazil" in Latin American Research Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 , 1999. pp. 109-131.

Andrew Orta: "Syncretic Subjects and Body Politics: Doubleness, Personhood, and Aymara Catechists" in American Ethnologist (26)(4), 1999. pp 864–889.

Religious dimensions of transnationalism, globalization, and immigration

Manuel A. Vasquez: "Introduction" and : "Theorizing globalization and religion" in Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas, pp. 12-64.

Thomas Tweed: Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami , 2002. Oxford.

Pe?a, Elaine: "Beyond Mexico: Guadalupan Sacred Space Production and Mobilization in a Chicago Suburb" in American Quarterly, Volume 60 Number 3, September 2008. pp. 721-747 .

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