Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Reconsiderations of American religion and class -- Socioeconomic inequality in the American religious system : an update and assessment / Christian Smith and Robert Faris -- At ease with our own kind : worship practices and class segregation in American religion /Timothy J. Nelson -- Sect appeal: rethinking the class-sect link / Samuel H. Reimer -- The ghost of Marx and the stench of deprivation : cutting the ties that bind in the study of religion and class / Sean McCloud -- Part II: Case studies in American religion and class -- Exploring the class cultural anchors of fundamentalism / Thaddeus Coreno -- Class differences in attitudes about business, economics, and social welfare among Indianapolis Catholics and Protestants / William A. Mirola -- Godly riches : the nineteenth-century roots of the modern prosperity gospel / Ginger Stickney -- Sensing class: religion, aesthetics, and formations of class in the eastern Kentucky's coal fields / Richard J. Callahan, Jr. -- William P. Fife, the drummer evangelist : class and the Protestant ethic in the nineteenth-century south / Joe Creech.

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