TY - BOOK AU - McCloud,Sean TI - Divine hierarchies: class in American religion and religious studies SN - 9780807877623 AV - BL2525 .M394 2007eb U1 - 200.86/20973 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - University of South Alabama KW - gnd KW - Social conflict KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Religion and sociology KW - United States KW - Sociologie religieuse KW - États-Unis KW - RELIGION KW - Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - fast KW - Religion KW - Soziale Klasse KW - Sozialer Konflikt KW - Klasse KW - idszbz KW - Religionssoziologie KW - USA N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=226126 ER -