Divine hierarchies

McCloud, Sean.

Divine hierarchies class in American religion and religious studies / [electronic resource] : Sean McCloud. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - x, 224 p. ; 25 cm.

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

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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9780807877623 (electronic bk.) 080787762X (electronic bk.)


Social conflict--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Religion and sociology--United States.


United States--Religion.


Electronic books.

BL2525 / .M394 2007eb

200.86/20973