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Religion in the Américas explores the fluid, dynamic, and complex nature of religion across Latin America and its diasporic communities in the United States. Utilizing a transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric lens, this groundbreaking anthology transcends traditional scholarly boundaries—geographical, disciplinary, and temporal—as it explores ideas and cultural practices that share a common history of Iberian colonialism. This robust collection of essays forges a dialogue among scholars throughout the Americas who represent a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The book is divided into five sections: ""Fluidity in the Afro-Latine Diaspora,"" ""Aesthetics in Las Américas,"" ""Critical Feminist Epistemologies and Activism,"" ""The Limits of Institutional Religion,"" and ""Spiritual Invasions and Contagions."" Throughout the volume, the concept of ""experience"" serves as a foundational lens, as chapters examine how individuals and communities actively interpret and negotiate their realities within diverse historical and social contexts. Focusing on religion as a culturally conditioned epistemic practice, Religion in the Américas invites readers to engage with religion in the Americas on multiple, intersecting levels of knowledge, including local insights, scholarly analyses, and the positionality and queries of readers themselves. The book's dialogical approach encourages not only continual reevaluation of the complexities of religious experience in the Americas but also creative innovation that will inspire new avenues of inquiry.

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""A superb, engaging, and vitally important work that navigates across and connects geographic borders while highlighting the richness, complexity, and fluid correspondence of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx religious experience and expression."" - Benjamin Valentin, coeditor of The Ties that Bind: African American and Hispanic American/Latino/a Theologies in Dialogue

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Christopher D. Tirres holds the Michael J. Buckley Endowed Chair at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas and The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith: A Dialogue between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought. Jessica L. Delgado is an associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and history at Ohio State University.

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