SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Author: HERNÁNDEZ HERNÁNDEZ ALBERTO.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: The theme of this thesis is change in relation to religious social change in the border states with Mexico Unidos.La investigation covers from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twenty-first century, and it seeks to examine cauasas that have led to the consolidation and expasión of different religious practices to Catholicism. According to various explanations, the boom in Latin American Protestant experiencing an element recurente were trumáticos processes of industrialization and urbanization that has seen the region since the forties and fifties of the twentieth century. Obviously, the change has manifested itself with religious intensity and uneven in different times in each país.En this paper we analyze expressed uneven intensity and different times in each país.En this paper we analyze the main theoretical paradigms regarding the religious and evaluate change his pertiencia to explain the case mexicano.México is not the country that have been transformed more quickly, or its northern border region is its most Protestants, contradicting interpretations more relief. A central part of the work is the analysis of two regions of Mexico that have experienced profound changes in their religious structure but maintain interrelated socioeconomic and demographic conditions very heterogéneas.La rural, more poverty and more indigenous inhabitants, presents a greater growth rate of the non-Catholic population, compared to the most urban, whose levels are higher social welfare. Also highlighted in this paper the analysis on the structure, composition, social presence and growth strategies of the evangelical churches in the border norge of Mexíco, where they made of the various streams that make up this movement. Another objective was to analyze the main interpretations sociologícas the process of religious conversion, as well as assessing their application in the study of conversion processes of those who have abandoned their Catholic faith to embrace Protestant, a phenomenon that affects family life and networks and labor that is producing a profound social invoice various communities indígenas.Vale remember that most of these models have been designed for the case in the United States and some have been modified and adapted to analyze other companies. This text will try to analyze the space, time and conditions are still people in their religious quest, and especially the paths of converts, what doubts and questions are raised, how they chose their entry to a congragación, how it changed her life by adopting a new religion and what relationship they maintain with their relatives, neighbors and coworkers. The work is based on analysis of census data, query files, interviews, participant observation and 54 stories of conversion.

Author: NÚÑEZ MOSTEO FRANCESC.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE CIÈNCIES POLÍTIQUES I SOCIOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Author: NAGASE YUMI.
Year: 2006.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA Y DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA Y DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: This dissertation examines how representing the image of Japan and the Japanese people in the Spanish missionary journals in the decade between 1914 and 1923. These magazines, for wide distribution, was undoubtedly one of the items that you contributed to shaping the image that the Spaniards took on Japan. The characteristics of the environment, as well as genetic authors of the articles will generally missions stationed in Japan, trying to describe a business from their own Western and garlic with a purpose-oriented its cristianización-contribuyeron to modulate this image. Thus, the descriptions that the missions-both, in this case, journalists offered in Japan, covering all aspects of the Japanese society. Elements such as the Japanese national idiosyncrasies, its political system built around the Emperor, or differentiation between the sexes appear in his writings. However, religiosity was the point that most Japanese center its attention, something logical if one takes into account that those who were religious produced these images.