Surveying a vast expanse of interdisciplinary terrain, More than Belief should find a wide-ranging audience. Vasquez provides accessible and astute summaries of theoretical approaches, while articulating a rigorous theory of material religion and offering a coherent methodology for the academic study of its practice. It is well suited for the graduate school classroom and should prove an invaluable resource for sociologists of religion.

"Surveying a vast expanse of interdisciplinary terrain, More than Belief should find a wide-ranging audience. Vasquez provides accessible and astute summaries of theoretical approaches, while articulating a rigorous theory of material religion and offering a coherent methodology for the academic study of its practice. It is well suited for the graduate school classroom and should prove an invaluable resource for sociologists of religion." --Sociology of Religion "More than Belief should find a wide-ranging audience. Vasquez provides accessible and astute summaries of theoretical approaches, while articulating a rigorous theory of material religion and offering a coherent methodology for the academic study of its practice. It is well suited for the graduate school classroom and should prove an invaluable resource for sociologists of religion."--Sociology of Religion "Manuel Vasquez's provocative book is must reading for everyone who wants to understand contemporary theories of religion. It not only offers a new framework for 'rematerializing' the study of popular piety but also provides nothing less than a strategic reinterpretation of the history of Western theories about what religion is and how it functions." -Thomas A. Tweed, author of Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion "Vasquez provides accessible and astute summaries of theoretical approaches, while articulating a rigorous theory of meterial religion and offering a coherent methodology for the academic study of its practice."--Chad E. Seales, University of Texas Austin "Vasquz provides accessible and astute summaries of theoretical approaches, while articulating a rigorous theory of material religion and offering a coherent methodology for the academic study of its practice"--Sociology of Religion

Selling point: Offers a new, non-reductive materialist theory of religion Selling point: Brings the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences into conversation around the issue of religion Selling point: Synthesizes cutting-edge research on religious experience and performance

Manuel A. Vásquez teaches in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on religion in Latin America and among U.S. Latinos. His research currently focuses on the intersection between religion and globalization, particular on the dynamics of transnational religious networks and flows across the Americas.

Selling point: Offers a new, non-reductive materialist theory of religion Selling point: Brings the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences into conversation around the issue of religion Selling point: Synthesizes cutting-edge research on religious experience and performance