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This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and what we can learn from a renewed engagement with the topic. This volume discusses what new discourses regarding notions of gender, ethnicity, and race might add to developments on notions of class.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137339249

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Introduction

Rieger Joerg

1-23

Religion and class

Wolff Richard D.

27-42

Save us from cynicism

Mo Sung Jung

43-59

Class, sin, and the displaced

Westhelle Vítor

61-73

The theological value of social class analysis and other social distinctions

Míguez Néstor O.

77-98

Religion and class in the construction and deconstruction of the myth of American exceptionalism

Collins Sheila D.

99-120

Protesting classes through protestant glasses

Estey Ken

121-139

Poverty and poor people's agency in high-tech capitalism

Rehmann Jan

143-156

Inequality, class, and power in global perspective

Brubaker Pamela K.

157-173

Black reconstruction

Walker Corey D. B.

175-187

Instigating class struggle?

Rieger Joerg

189-211