Religion & Spirituality I 2008 Feature Releases

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Spirituality I

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Second Edition of Best-Selling Getting Our Groove Back: How to
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The following knowledgeable industry leaders and scholars from
Business Wire's ExpertSource database are available to discuss topics
relating to Religion & Spirituality I

Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, can speak with authority on
transnationalism, migration, religion, sociology of culture, race and
ethnicity and Latin American Studies. In addition to her associate
professorship at Wellesley, Peggy Levitt is a Research Fellow at the
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She
is currently writing a book on the nexus between transnational
migration and religion in five immigrant communities in Boston. She is
co-director, with Sanjeev Khagram, of the Emerging Transnational
Dynamics Initiative which explores, from a variety of theoretical and
methodological, perspectives, the forms and consequences of different
kinds of transnationalism, how these relate to one another, and how
they define and redefine social relations and institutions. She is
co-principal investigator, with Sally Merry, on a study of how global
discourses about women's rights get adapted to local contexts.
Finally, she is a steering committee member of the Social Science
Research Council Working Group on Globalization and Religion.

Research and Publications: "Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A
Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society" International
Migration Review (with Nina Glick Schiller), 2004 "Salsa and Ketchup:
Transnational Migrants Keep Feet in Two Worlds" Contexts Vol 3(2)
Spring 2004:20-26. "Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The
Institutional Character of Transnational Religious Life." Sociology of
Religion: Spring 2004 Vol 35 (1): 174-196. "You know, Abraham was
Really the First Immigrant:Religion and Transnational Migration"
International Migration Review The Transnational Villagers University
of California Press, 2001. Awarded Honorable Mention from the
International Migration Section of the American Sociological
Association and Honorable Mention for the Best Book Award, New England
Council on Latin American Studies. "The Changing Face of Home: The
Transnational Lives of the Second Generation," 2002. Co-edited with
Mary Waters.

PR Contact: Arlie Corday, Director of Communications and Media
Relations, acorday@wellesley.edu, 781-283-3321

Mr. Richard Grant is a historian of religion in Los Angeles
specializing in spirituality, faith and religious institutions in and
around southern California. He has conducted extensive research in all
areas of religion, worship and spiritual beliefs and is currently
compiling a guidebook of religious resources specializing in places to
worship and what religious institutions provide in the Los Angeles
area. He can provide a perspective on contemporary issues such as
abortion, religious freedom, comparative religion and war. Rick Grant
serves as a religious expert and consultant of religious statistics
and the history of religion as well as many well-known pastors,
rabbis, priests and other spiritual leaders and institutions in the
local and regional area. He has also published papers and commentaries
with an eclectic approach to religion and religious resources.

PR Contact: Agnes Huff, PhD, President & CEO,
ahuff@ahuffgroup.com, 310-641-2525

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