Politics of religious minoritisation and glocalisation: notes towards a study of religious networks of transnational sociopolitical activism

Abstract

This article offers a preliminary analytical framework for the study of one of the main forms of global expression of
religious movements in the contemporary scenario and its specific impact on the public sphere: the involvement of
networks of social and political activism at translocal, trasnational and global levels. This is done through the analysis of
the relationship between religion and globalisation, with particular attention to Christian groups, stressing two sets of
processes: first, the dynamics of visibility and latency within these experiences; and second, the convergence between
processes of minoritisation and imbrication of local and global (which will be developed though the concept of glocalisation).
The study will be conducted as a comparative analysis of existing networks between Brazil, Argentina and the
United Kingdom.