Transnational Religion in Contemporary Latin America and the United States (program), January 26-27, 2006

This conference seeks to interrogate how religion and globalization are intertwined within transnationalized societies, from the perspectives of both the "sending" and the "receiving" countries, and to explore how church affiliation and church institutions react to and against the twin elemental forces of transnationalism and globalization. We will take as a point of departure the notion that religion is unusually well suited to transnationalism, since colonial Catholicism could be considered the first truly transnational entity in Latin America.