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The Making of Working-Class Religion
Matthew Pehl
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Description for The Making of Working-Class Religion
Paperback. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRAX; HRC; JFSC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America's workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city's working-class Catholics, African American Protestants, and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and 1969. Pehl embarks on an integrative view of working-class faith that ranges across boundaries of class, race, denomination, and time. As he shows, workers in the 1910s and 1920s practiced beliefs characterized by emotional expressiveness, alliance with supernatural forces, and incorporation of mass culture's secular diversions into the sacred. That gave way to the more pragmatic class-conscious religion cultures of the New Deal era and, from the late Thirties on, a quilt of secular working-class cultures that coexisted in competitive, though creative, tension. Finally, Pehl shows how the ideology of race eclipsed class in the 1950s and 1960s, and in so doing replaced the class-conscious with the race-conscious in religious cultures throughout the city.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Working Class in American History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081897
SKU
V9780252081897
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About Matthew Pehl
Matthew Pehl is an associate professor of history at Augustana University.
Reviews for The Making of Working-Class Religion
Pehl's work makes a number of important contributions to our thinking about religion within labor history. . . . He expertly weaves together the thoughts of religious leaders and rank-and-file workers and shows the intersections of these processes among Protestants and Catholics, and African American and white workers.
Journal of American History The Making of Working Class Religion is an important read for both scholars of labor and scholars of religion as a methodological model for advancing the study of religion, labor, and class. . . . Pehl's book teaches its readers
whether they be scholars, labor organizers, or graduate or undergraduate students
how to recover and interpret critically and empathetically, the religious worlds of working-class people.
Labour/Le Travail The value of Pehl's wonderful book is that it helps us reimagine the currents of faith that ebb and flow in American society and interact with changing political and economic circumstances. This is a book that belongs on the shelves of historians.
American Historical Review Highly Recommended.
Choice Pehl is to be commended for his multivalent work, and for the important contributions he makes to both The Working Class in American History series and to the study of America's religious history.
Anglican Theological Review This book is well-written, concise, and highly recommended to all audiences.
The Michigan Historical Review
Journal of American History The Making of Working Class Religion is an important read for both scholars of labor and scholars of religion as a methodological model for advancing the study of religion, labor, and class. . . . Pehl's book teaches its readers
whether they be scholars, labor organizers, or graduate or undergraduate students
how to recover and interpret critically and empathetically, the religious worlds of working-class people.
Labour/Le Travail The value of Pehl's wonderful book is that it helps us reimagine the currents of faith that ebb and flow in American society and interact with changing political and economic circumstances. This is a book that belongs on the shelves of historians.
American Historical Review Highly Recommended.
Choice Pehl is to be commended for his multivalent work, and for the important contributions he makes to both The Working Class in American History series and to the study of America's religious history.
Anglican Theological Review This book is well-written, concise, and highly recommended to all audiences.
The Michigan Historical Review