Religion and class in America
Subtitle: culture, history, and politics
By: edited by Sean McCloud and William A. Mirola.
Contributors: McCloud, Sean.; Mirola, William A.
Series: International studies in religion and society -- v. 7
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789004171428
Subjects: Social classes -- United States; United States -- Religion
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Reconsiderations of American religion and class; title: Socioeconomic inequality in the American religious system : an update and assessment / Christian Smith and Robert Faris; title: At ease with our own kind : worship practices and class segregation in American religion /Timothy Nelson; title: Sect appea l: rethinking the class-sect link / Sam Reimer; title: The ghost of Marx and the stench of deprivation : cutting the ties that bind in the study of religion and class / Sean McCloud; title: Part II: Case studies in American religion and class; title: Exploring the class cultural anchors of fundamentalism / Thaddeus Coreno; title: Class differences in attitudes about business, economics, and  social welfare among Indianapolis Catholics and Protestants / William Mirola; title: Godly riches : the nineteenth-century roots of the modern prosperity gospel / Ginger Stickney; title: Religion, aesthetics, and formations of class in eastern Kentucky's coal fields / Richard Callahan, Jr.; title: William P. Jife, the drummer evangelist : class and the Protestant ethic in the nineteenth-century south / Joe Creech.