Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty
Upon cursory glance, readers might not expect a book like Faith and Money to make radical claims. Researchers who combine the quantitative studies of religion and stratification tend to speak primarily of correlations and not causation, treading carefully around the thorny overlap between socioecono...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2012
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 461-462 |
| Review of: | Faith and money (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2011) (Massengill, Rebekah Peeples)
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| Summary: | Upon cursory glance, readers might not expect a book like Faith and Money to make radical claims. Researchers who combine the quantitative studies of religion and stratification tend to speak primarily of correlations and not causation, treading carefully around the thorny overlap between socioeconomic status (SES) and religious affiliation. The idea that people choose religious affiliations based upon their existing place in a socioeconomic order (e.g., “What do you call a Methodist with a college degree? Presbyterian”) has generally limited the sociology of religion's ability to make claims about the influence of religious beliefs and practices upon stratification outcomes. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srs066 |