Religion and class in America : culture, history, and politics / / edited by Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola.

• Superior document: International studies in religion and society, v. 7
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: McCloud, Sean.; Mirola, William A.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in religion and society ; 7.
• Physical Description: x, 220 p.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Part I: Reconsiderations of American religion and class -- Socioeconomic inequality in the American religious system : an update and assessment / Christian Smith and Robert Faris -- At ease with our own kind : worship practices and class segregation in American religion /Timothy J. Nelson -- Sect appeal: rethinking the class-sect link / Samuel H. Reimer -- The ghost of Marx and the stench of deprivation : cutting the ties that bind in the study of religion and class / Sean McCloud -- Part II: Case studies in American religion and class -- Exploring the class cultural anchors of fundamentalism / Thaddeus Coreno -- Class differences in attitudes about business, economics, and social welfare among Indianapolis Catholics and Protestants / William A. Mirola -- Godly riches : the nineteenth-century roots of the modern prosperity gospel / Ginger Stickney -- Sensing class: religion, aesthetics, and formations of class in the eastern Kentucky's coal fields / Richard J. Callahan, Jr. -- William P. Fife, the drummer evangelist : class and the Protestant ethic in the nineteenth-century south / Joe Creech.