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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781925603321

Autore

McCloud Sean

Titolo

Divine hierarchies [[electronic resource] ] : class in American religion and religious studies / / Sean McCloud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0615-1

0-8078-7762-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

200.86/20973

Soggetti

Social conflict - Religious aspects - Christianity

Religion and sociology - United States

United States Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.