Religion and class in America : : culture, history, and politics / / edited by Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola.
Class has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking inches This volume starts a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in which it does not...
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| Superior document: | International studies in religion and society, v. 7 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International studies in religion and society ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.