Divine hierarchies : class in American religion and religious studies / Sean McCloud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCloud, Sean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Social conflict.

Religion and sociology--United States.

Religion and sociology.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, power, and our most ingrained habits of mind and body. He demonstrates that employing class as an analytical tool that cuts across variables such as creed, race, ethnicity, and gender can illuminate American religious life in unprecedented ways.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-215) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908805-7-4

979-88-9313-233-5

1-4696-0615-1

0-8078-7762-X

OCLC:

476190268