Religion and Class in America ― Culture, History and Politics

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this book compiles fresh data to revitalize a long overdue discussion about how class matters in the study of religion by examining the many ways class interacts with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and affiliations that constitute American religion, yesterday and today.

Sean McCloud, Ph.D. (2000) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is author of two books and several articles, includingDivine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies (University of North Carolina Press 2007).William A. Mirola, Ph.D. (1995) is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Marian College in Indianapolis. Apart from having written several articles, he is co-editor (with Susanne Monahan and Michael O. Emerson) of Sociology of Religion: A Reader (Prentice Hall 2001) and co-author (also with Monahan and Emerson) ofReligion Implicated: How Sociology Helps to Understand the Role of Religion in Our World (Allyn and Bacon, forthcoming).