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The Making of Working-Class Religion

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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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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