Manuel Vasquez
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| Dr. Manuel Vasquez | |
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| Field | Latin American Studies |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University Temple University |
Manuel A. Vasquez is an associate professor at the University of Florida. He specializes in religion in Latin America and among U.S. Latinos.
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[edit] Biography
Manuel A. Vasquez is a leading expert on how Latino immigration is changing the United States. He co-directed (with Philip J. Williams) a study, supported by the Ford Foundation on religious pluralism, identity, and transnational migration among Brazilians, Mexicans, and Guatemalans in the New South, with a particular focus on how immigrants use religious resources in their everyday life. His current research focuses on Latino immigrants in Atlanta. Recent trends in Latino migration are transforming the social and cultural landscape in the south. The rapid growth of Latino populations among predominantly Euroamerican communities unaccustomed to migration is generating conflicts with important consequences for civic life in the state, particularly for the political integration or marginalization of Latino immigrants. Vasquez’s research explores the role of religious ideas, practices, and institutions in resolving or exacerbating these conflicts. He has served on the executive council of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and is a member of the coordinating committee of a multi-sited research project entitled "The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities" based at the Social Science Research Council.
Manuel A. Vásquez received his B.S. from Georgetown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Temple University. His dissertation and first book, The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge University Press 1998), explored the effects of democratization and late capitalism on grassroots progressive Catholicism in Brazil. The book received the 1998 award for excellence in the analytical-descriptive study of religion from the American Academy of Religion. Vasquez also co-edited (with Anna Peterson and Philip Williams), Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas (Rutgers University Press 2001), based on a three-year long comparative research project on Catholic and evangelical Protestant congregations in Peru, El Salvador, and among Peruvians and Salvadorans in the U.S. This work was supported by a major grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Vasquez has received grants and fellowships from the Lilly Endowment and the Rockefeller and Mellon Foundations.
[edit] Works
- Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas (Rutgers University Press 2003)
- Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas (Rutgers University Press 2001)
- The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge University Press 1998)
[edit] Works with References to Manuel Vasquez
- American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy (Columbia University Press 2006)
- The Marketplace of Christianity (MIT Press 2006)
- A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America (University of North Carolina Press 2006)
- The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology (Oxford University Press, USA 2006)
- Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity (Baker Academic 2006)
- Latinos and the New Immigrant Church (Johns Hopkins University Press 2006)
- Handbook of Latina/o Theologies (Chalice Press 2006)
- Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (Harvard University Press 2006)
