Religion and Class in America : Culture, History, and Politics.

By: Mirola, William AContributor(s): McCloud, Sean | Mirola, BillMaterial type: TextTextSeries: International Studies in Religion and Society SerPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (232 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047424734Subject(s): Social classes -- United States | United States -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and Class in America : Culture, History, and PoliticsDDC classification: 305.5/10882773 LOC classification: BL2525.R453 2009Online resources: Click to View
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CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction (Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola) -- PART ONE RECONSIDERATIONS OF AMERICAN RELIGION AND CLASS -- 1. Socioeconomic Inequality in the American Religious System: An Update and Assessment (Christian Smith and Robert Faris) -- 2. At Ease with Our Own Kind: Worship Practices and Class Segregation in American Religion (Timothy J. Nelson) -- 3. Sect Appeal: Rethinking the Class-Sect Link (Samuel H. Reimer) -- 4. The Ghost of Marx and the Stench of Deprivation: Cutting the Ties That Bind in the Study of Religion and Class (Sean McCloud) -- PART TWO CASE STUDIES IN AMERICAN RELIGION AND CLASS -- 5. Exploring the Class Cultural Anchors of Fundamentalism (Thaddeus Coreno) -- 6. Class Differences in Attitudes about Business, Economics, and Social Welfare among Indianapolis Catholics and Protestants (William A. Mirola) -- 7. Godly Riches: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Modern Prosperity Gospel (Ginger Stickney) -- 8. Sensing Class: Religion, Aesthetics, and Formations of Class in the Eastern Kentucky's Coal Fields (Richard J.Callahan, Jr) -- 9. William P. Fife, the Drummer Evangelist: Class and the Protestant Ethic in the Nineteenth-Century South (Joe Creech) -- Index.
Summary: Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this book compiles fresh data to revitalize a long overdue discussion about how class matters in the study of religion by examining the many ways class interacts with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and affiliations that constitute American religion, yesterday and today.
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CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction (Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola) -- PART ONE RECONSIDERATIONS OF AMERICAN RELIGION AND CLASS -- 1. Socioeconomic Inequality in the American Religious System: An Update and Assessment (Christian Smith and Robert Faris) -- 2. At Ease with Our Own Kind: Worship Practices and Class Segregation in American Religion (Timothy J. Nelson) -- 3. Sect Appeal: Rethinking the Class-Sect Link (Samuel H. Reimer) -- 4. The Ghost of Marx and the Stench of Deprivation: Cutting the Ties That Bind in the Study of Religion and Class (Sean McCloud) -- PART TWO CASE STUDIES IN AMERICAN RELIGION AND CLASS -- 5. Exploring the Class Cultural Anchors of Fundamentalism (Thaddeus Coreno) -- 6. Class Differences in Attitudes about Business, Economics, and Social Welfare among Indianapolis Catholics and Protestants (William A. Mirola) -- 7. Godly Riches: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Modern Prosperity Gospel (Ginger Stickney) -- 8. Sensing Class: Religion, Aesthetics, and Formations of Class in the Eastern Kentucky's Coal Fields (Richard J.Callahan, Jr) -- 9. William P. Fife, the Drummer Evangelist: Class and the Protestant Ethic in the Nineteenth-Century South (Joe Creech) -- Index.

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this book compiles fresh data to revitalize a long overdue discussion about how class matters in the study of religion by examining the many ways class interacts with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and affiliations that constitute American religion, yesterday and today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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