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- Title
Class styles of religious sociation.
- Authors
Goode, Erich
- Abstract
The article discusses various dimensions of religion. Members of different class strata, have different styles of religious expression: various dimensions of religion appeal quite differently to those variously placed in the class structure. Religion, then, cannot he seen to be of a single piece. It must be conceived of as containing a number of different facets, some of which can be thought of as being almost contradictory to others. This raises a host of questions. To begin with: How do two of these dimensions of religious expression, formal religious activity, such as church attendance, and religious feeling or involvement, relate to one another? Since each relates to a third variable, social class, in the opposite manner, yet both are aspects of religious sociation, the question might legitimately be raised as to how they themselves correlate. The article discusses, by introducing formal non church participation: How does it relate to social class? It further discusses whether it relate in the same direction and to the same degree as church participation.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; society; SOCIAL classes; RELIGIOUS institutions; CHURCH attendance; NON-church-affiliated people; BELIEF &; doubt
- Publication
British Journal of Sociology, 1968, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0007-1315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/588540