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Title Religion and class in America : culture, history, and politics / edited by Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 220 pages)
Series International studies in religion and society, 1573-4293 ; v. 7
International studies in religion and society ; 7.
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
Summary Class has always played a role in American religion. This work examines the myriad ways that class interacts with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of American religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social classes -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
Religion
Social classes
SUBJECT United States -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author McCloud, Sean.
Mirola, William A. (William Andrew)
ISBN 9789047424734
9047424735
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9781282400375
9786612400377
6612400374