Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies - Hardcover

McCloud, Sean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807831603 ISBN 13: 9780807831601

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

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Book by McCloud Sean

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Historians will benefit from McCloud's demolition of older lines of scholarship and from his carefully delimited and culturally perceptive theories of class analysis.--Journal of American History Compelling. . . . Strongly recommend[ed] . . . for those seeking a better historical understanding of religion and class from both sociological and theological perspectives.--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion McCloud has taken the lead among scholars eager to reinsert class into studies of American religion. . . . McCloud provides us with a better tool for sifting through the symbiotic relationship of class and religion and how these together help us understand religious affiliation.--Journal of Religion Offers an important contribution to the understanding of North American religion that draws our attention to the role of class for an explanation. . . . A novel approach for understanding class and religion without explaining away the religion or the participants' involvement. For these reasons, scholars of Penecostalism ought to read Divine Hierachies with openness to incorporating an element of class in their analysis.--Pneuma

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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 is also an identity rhetorically and symbolically made and unmade through representations. It 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. Through social theory, historical analysis, and ethnography, McCloud makes an interdisciplinary argument for reinserting class into the study of religion. First, he offers a new three-part conception of class for use in studying religion. He then presents a focused cultural history of religious studies by examining how social class surfaced in twentieth-century theories of religious affiliation. He concludes with historical and ethnographic case studies of religion and class. "Divine Hierarchies" makes a convincing case for the past and present importance of class in American religious thought, practice, and scholarship.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807831603
• ISBN 13: 9780807831601
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240