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| Research Interests |
| Dr. Ramirez' areas of research and teaching include religions of the Southwest borderlands and migration, with a special interest in the history of religious contact, conflict, and conversion in the Americas and in the transnational and cultural dimensions of religious practice. Of particular interest are the role of music as a religious or symbolic remittance and catalyst for religious change and the question of indigenous conversion. |
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| Biography |
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Dr. Ramirez obtained his Ph.D. in American Religious History from Duke University in 2005.
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| Courses Taught |
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Spring, 2007: ST:U.S. LATINO REL/ CULTURE (CSH 394)
Spring, 2007: PRS:REL PATHWAYS OF BORDERLANDS (REL 405)
Fall, 2006: ST:US LATINO REL & CULTURE (CSH 394)
Fall, 2006: S:LTN AMER RELIG HIS (REL 591)
Spring, 2006: ST:U.S. LATINO REL/ CULTURE (CSH 394)
Spring, 2006: RMRS:CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF RELIGION (REL 502)
Spring, 2005: ST:U.S. LATINO RELIGION & CULTURE (CSH 394)
Spring, 2005: RM:CONTEMP THEORIES OF RELIGION (REL 50)
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| Selected Publications |
| Dr. Ramirez has authored many articles on the history and culture of Latino and Latin American Pentecostalism for several anthologies and journals. His current book project, "Migrating Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," examines the origins and growth of early 20th-century Mexican/Chicano Pentecostalism and its more contemporary counterpart within the Oaxacan homeland and diaspora known as "Oaxacalifornia." |
