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Author McCloud, Sean.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-215) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject United States -- Religion.
United States.
Religion.
Social conflict -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Social conflict -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Religion and sociology -- United States.
Religion and sociology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: McCloud, Sean. Divine hierarchies. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 9780807831601 0807831603 (DLC) 2007014826 (OCoLC)123119811
ISBN 9780807877623 (electronic book)
080787762X (electronic book)
9781469606156 (electronic book)
1469606151 (electronic book)
9780807858493 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807831601 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807831603 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807858498 (paperback ; alkaline paper)