FRONT COVER -- RELIGION, WORK AND INEQUALITY -- COPRYGITH PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- PART I: PATTERNS OF RELIGIOUS STRATIFICATION -- RELIGIOUS STRATIFICATION IN AMERICA -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL APPROACH -- ORIGINS -- PERSISTENCE AND CHANGE -- CONSEQUENCES -- IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- DID THE RELIGIOUS GROUP SOCIOECONOMIC RANKING CHANGE LEADING INTO THE GREAT RECESSION? -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS STRATIFICATION -- DATA AND METHODS -- RESULTS: PATTERNS OF GAINS AND LOSSES LEADING INTO THE GREAT RECESSION, 2001-2007 -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANTS, EARLY TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD, AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF CLASS -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE -- ANALYTIC STRATEGY -- DATA AND METHODS -- FINDINGS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS -- PART II: RELIGION, OCCUPATIONS, AND WEALTH -- RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE -- THE PROTESTANT ETHIC, CULTURAL CAPITAL, AND OPPOSITIONAL/AFFIRMATIVE CULTURES -- DATA AND MEASURES -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING AND THE POWER TO DO GOOD: WHOSE DOLLARS ARE BEING HEARD? -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING -- DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RELIGION AND WEALTH ACROSS GENERATIONS -- DATA SOURCES -- RELIGION, NET WORTH, AND REAL ASSETS -- ASSET POVERTY -- HIGH NET WORTH -- PORTFOLIO BEHAVIOR -- MULTIVARIATE MODEL -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART III: RELIGION AND EDUCATION -- PARENTAL RELIGIOSITY AND CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- INTRODUCTION.

ADOLESCENT RELIGIOSITY AND THE PROBLEM OF ''INVISIBLE RELIGION'' -- PARENTAL RELIGIOSITY AND CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- DIMENSIONS OF RELIGIOSITY -- OBJECTIONS TO THE RELIGIOSITY-EDUCATION ATTAINMENT LINK -- RESEARCH STRATEGY -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RELIGIOUS NONAFFILIATION AND SCHOOLING: THE EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES OF THREE TYPES OF RELIGIOUS ''NONES'' -- HOW RELIGION SHAPES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- DATA AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, COLLEGE DEGREE ATTAINMENT, AND RELIGIOUS SWITCHING -- RELIGION AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS SWITCHING -- DATA -- ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NO MONEY, NO HONEY, NO CHURCH: THE DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RELIGIOUS LIFE AMONG THE WHITE WORKING CLASS -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- DATA AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOR VARIABLES IN REGRESSION MODELS, GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEYS 1972-2010, NON-HISPANIC WHITE 25- TO 44-YEAR-OLD RESPONDENTS -- APPENDIX B: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOR VARIABLES IN REGRESSION MODELS, NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH 1982-2008, NON-HISPANIC WHITE FEMALE 25- TO 45-YEAR-OLD RESPONDENTS -- PART IV: THE ROLE OF CONGREGATIONS -- RACE, CLASS, CONGREGATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS, AND CIVIC AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- RACE, SOCIAL CLASS, AND CONGREGATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS -- CONGREGATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS AND CIVIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY -- DATA -- ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- MEGA, MEDIUM, AND MINI: SIZE AND THE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS COMPOSITION OF AMERICAN PROTESTANT CHURCHES -- DATA -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

REFERENCES -- PART V: RELIGION AND STRATIFICATION ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS -- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND CHURCH ATTENDANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY -- INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION -- THEORY AND HYPOTHESES -- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND RELIGION -- DATA AND VARIABLES -- EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RELIGION, RELIGIOSITY, AND CULTURAL STRATIFICATION: THEORETICAL LINKS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- RELIGION AND CONSUMER CULTURE -- RELIGION AND CULTURAL CONSUMPTION -- EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: CONSTRUCTION OF VARIABLES -- APPENDIX B: SUMMARY OF STANDARDIZED EFFECTS OF RELIGIOSITY, EDUCATION, AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON CULTURAL CONSUMPTION -- PART VI: EXPANDING RESEARCH METHODS -- A NEW APPROACH FOR STUDYING STRATIFICATION AND RELIGION: EARLY RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL INTERNET-BASED FIELD EXPERIMENT STUDY OF U.S. CHURCHES -- INTRODUCTION -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNET-BASED FIELD EXPERIMENT METHOD -- METHOD AND RESEARCH DESIGN OF THE PRESENT STUDY -- SOME EARLY RESULTS AND FUTURE LINES OF INQUIRY -- OPPORTUNITIES AND PITFALLS OF IBFES FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES.