| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The working class in American history |
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Working class in American history.
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| Contents |
The contours of religious consciousness in working-class Detroit, 1910-1935 -- Power, politics, and the struggle over working-class religion, 1910-1938 -- Making worker religion in the New Deal era -- Race, politics, and worker religion in wartime Detroit, 1941-1946 -- The decline of worker religion, 1946-1963 -- Race and the remaking of religious consciousness |
| Summary |
In this volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city's working-class Catholics, African American Protestants and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and 1969. Pehl embarks on an integrative view of working-class faith that ranges across boundaries of class, race, denomination, and time. As he shows, workers in the 1910s and 1920s practiced beliefs characterised by emotional expressiveness, alliance with supernatural forces and incorporation of mass culture's secular diversions into the sacred |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Working class -- Religious life -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Working class -- Religious life
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| SUBJECT |
Detroit (Mich.) -- Church history -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Michigan -- Detroit
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016022066 |
| ISBN |
9780252098840 |
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0252098846 |
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