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Religion and inequality in America : research and theory on religion's role in stratification / edited by Lisa A. Keister, Duke University, Darren E. Sherkat, Southern Illinois University.

Contributor(s): Keister, Lisa A, 1968- [editor.] | Sherkat, Darren E, 1965- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: xx, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107027558 (hardback); 1107027551 (hardback)Subject(s): Religion and social status -- United States | Social stratification -- United States | Equality -- United StatesDDC classification: 305.0973 LOC classification: BL2525 | .R4565 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / N. J. Demerath III -- Introduction / Lisa A. Keister and Darren E. Sherkat -- Education. Nonaffiliation and Socioeconomic Status: Differences in Education and Income between Atheists and Agnostics and "Nothing in Particular"s / Rebekah Peeples Massengill -- Religion, Gender, and Educational Attainment among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey / Nadia Amin and Darren E. Sherkat -- Intersectionality and Identity: An Exploration of Arab American Women / Jen'nan Ghazal Read and David Eagle -- Income, Wealth, and the Labor Market. Conservative Protestants, Normative Pathways, and Adult Attainment / Scott T. Fitzgerald and Jennifer L. Glass -- Religion and Wealth Mobility: The Case of American Latinos / Lisa A. Keister and E. Paige Borelli -- The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the United States: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared? / Evelyn L. Lehrer and Yu Chen -- Attitudes, Cultural Capital, and Power. Religion and Gender Inequality: From Attitudes to Practices / John P. Bartkowski and Sarah Shah --
Social Reproduction and Religious Stratification / Ralph E. Pyle and James D. Davidson -- God in the Corner Office?: How Religion Advances and Inhibits Professional Mobility in the Higher Circles / D. Michael Lindsay -- The Religious Affiliations of Ivy League Presidents, 1636-2012: A Study in Religious Stratification / Deborah L. Coe and James D. Davidson -- Health and Well-Being. The Association Between Religiousness and Psychological Well-Being among Older Adults: Is There and Educational Gradient? / Christopher G. Ellison, Scott Schieman, and Matt Bradshaw -- Does Believing or Belonging Have a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events among Young Adults? / Margarita Mooney, Lin Wang, Jason Freeman, and Matt Bradshaw -- Recession, Religion, and Happiness, 2006-2010 / Michael Hout and Orestes P. Hastings -- Inequality and Religion. Reversing the Arrow?: Economic Inequality's Effect on Religiosity / Frederick Solt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / N. J. Demerath III -- Introduction / Lisa A. Keister and Darren E. Sherkat -- Part I: Education. Nonaffiliation and Socioeconomic Status: Differences in Education and Income between Atheists and Agnostics and "Nothing in Particular"s / Rebekah Peeples Massengill -- Religion, Gender, and Educational Attainment among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey / Nadia Amin and Darren E. Sherkat -- Intersectionality and Identity: An Exploration of Arab American Women / Jen'nan Ghazal Read and David Eagle -- Part II: Income, Wealth, and the Labor Market. Conservative Protestants, Normative Pathways, and Adult Attainment / Scott T. Fitzgerald and Jennifer L. Glass -- Religion and Wealth Mobility: The Case of American Latinos / Lisa A. Keister and E. Paige Borelli -- The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the United States: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared? / Evelyn L. Lehrer and Yu Chen -- Part III: Attitudes, Cultural Capital, and Power. Religion and Gender Inequality: From Attitudes to Practices / John P. Bartkowski and Sarah Shah --

Social Reproduction and Religious Stratification / Ralph E. Pyle and James D. Davidson -- God in the Corner Office?: How Religion Advances and Inhibits Professional Mobility in the Higher Circles / D. Michael Lindsay -- The Religious Affiliations of Ivy League Presidents, 1636-2012: A Study in Religious Stratification / Deborah L. Coe and James D. Davidson -- Part IV: Health and Well-Being. The Association Between Religiousness and Psychological Well-Being among Older Adults: Is There and Educational Gradient? / Christopher G. Ellison, Scott Schieman, and Matt Bradshaw -- Does Believing or Belonging Have a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events among Young Adults? / Margarita Mooney, Lin Wang, Jason Freeman, and Matt Bradshaw -- Recession, Religion, and Happiness, 2006-2010 / Michael Hout and Orestes P. Hastings -- Part V: Inequality and Religion. Reversing the Arrow?: Economic Inequality's Effect on Religiosity / Frederick Solt.

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