Religion, Theology, and Class Fresh Engagements after Long Silence

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.

Introduction: Why We Can Do No Longer without Class in Religious Studies and Theology; Joerg Rieger PART I: BASIC DEFINITIONS AND CHALLENGES 1. Religion and Class; Richard D. Wolff 2. Classes, Other Distinctions, and Their Theological Values; Néstor Míguez 3. Save Us from Cynicism: Religion and Social Class; Jung Mo Sung 4. Class, Sin, and the Displaced; Vítor Westhelle PART II: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS 5. Religion and Class in the Construction and Deconstruction of the Myth of American Exceptionalism; Sheila D. Collins 6. Protesting Classes through Protestant Glasses: Class, Labor, and the Social Gospel in the United States; Ken Estey PART III: ONGOING STRUGGLES: GENDER, POVERTY, RACE, AND CLASS 7. Poverty and Poor People's Agency in High-Tech Capitalism; Jan Rehmann 8. Inequality, Class, and Power in Global Perspective; Pamela K. Brubaker 9. Black Reconstruction: Thinking Blackness and Rethinking Class in Late Capitalist America, Corey D.B. Walker 10. Instigating Class Struggle? The Study of Class in Religion and Theology and Some Implications for Race and Gender; Joerg Rieger

Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University of São Paulo, Brazil Vítor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA Néstor Míguez, Instituto Universitario ISEDT, Buenos Aires, Argentina Sheila D. Collins, William Paterson University, USA Ken Estey, Brooklyn College, USA Jan Rehmann, Union Theological Seminary, USA Pamela K. Brubaker, California Lutheran University, USA Corey D.B. Walker, Brown University, USA Joerg Rieger, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, USA