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TORRE CASTELLANOS, Renée de la  y  LEVITT, Peggy. Religion and Rescaling: How Saint Toribio put Santa Ana on the Transnational Religious Map. Desacatos [online]. 2017, n.55, pp.128-151. ISSN 2448-5144.

This article shows how religion contributed to the binational repositioning of Santa Ana de Guadalupe, in Los Altos, Jalisco, where there is a popular sanctuary to Saint Toribio Romo, the patron saint of migration. Although studies of globalization have been more interested recently in the impact of the economy on the formation of global city hot spots, in the case study presented here we highlight the role of religion and of migration in the rescaling of a place, factors which are often ignored by students of global geographies. We argue that the repositioning of this town on a world scale was possible thanks to religious changes that took place in combination with other economic and cultural changes.

Palabras llave : global rescaling; Saint Toribio; Altos de Jalisco; religion; migration.

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