Divine Hierarchies : Class in American Religion and Religious Studies /

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Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class also entails relationships, identifications, boundaries, meanings, powe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCloud, Sean (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
University of South Alabama
Religionssoziologie.
Religion.
Sozialer Konflikt.
Klasse.
Sozialer Konflikt
Soziale Klasse
Religion
Religion and sociology.
Social conflict > Religious aspects > Christianity.
RELIGION > General.
RELIGION > Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Sociologie religieuse > États-Unis.
Religion and sociology > United States.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Religion.
United States > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Class matters : resurrecting and redescribing a neglected variable
  • From inherent tendencies to social sources in religion scholarship
  • The depraved, the unevolved, and the degenerate : explaining religious affiliations in the age of eugenics
  • The peyote of the masses : cultural crises and acculturation between the world wars
  • Visions of the disinherited : the origins of religion, deprivation, and the usual suspects after World War II
  • Putting some class in American religion
  • Some theologies of class in American religious history
  • In the field : deprivation, class, and the usual suspects at two Holiness Pentecostal Assemblies.

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