Description
Book Synopsis Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-this book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world.
Trade Review"The book stands out for the sharpness and freshness of the presentation on transnational groups. Valuable."
Table of Contents"The only way I can walk" / Anna Peterson
Religion and family / Rosa Castro Aguilar
Popular religion and the (Re)construction of community in Yungay / Philip Williams
Believers and neighbors / Hortensia Munoz
Faith and citizenship . Rosa Castro Aguilar
Rebuilding community in the wake of war / Ileana Gomez
Rethinking transnationalism / Larissa Ruiz Baia
Youth gangs and religion among salvadorans in Washington and El Salvador
Ileana Gomez and Manual Vasquez
"Upwards, never down" / Anna Peterson and Manuel Vasquez
The global and the local / Anna Peterson, Manuel Vasquez, and Philip Williams
