Religion, work, and inequality / edited by Lisa A. Keister, John McCarthy, and Roger Finke.

Part 1: Patterns of religious stratification -- Religious stratification in America / James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle -- Did the religious group socioeconomic ranking change leading into the great recession? / Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, Rebekah P. Massengill and Anne Fengyan Shi -- Conservative Protestants, early transitions to adulthood, and the intergenerational transmission of class / Scott T. Fitzgerald and Jennifer L. Glass -- Part II: Religion, occupations, and wealth -- Religion and the American occupational structure / Darren E. Sherkat -- Socially responsible investing and the power to do good: whose dollars are being heard? / Jared L. Peifer -- Religion and wealth across generations / Lisa A. Keister -- Part III: Religion and education -- Parental religiosity and children's educational attainment in the United States / Gregory M. Eirich -- Religious nonaffiliation and schooling: The educational trajectory of three types of religious "nones" / Rebekah P. Massengill and Carol Ann Macgregor -- Religious affiliation, college degree attainment, and religious switching / Christopher P. Scheitle and Buster G. Smith -- No money, no honey, no church: the deinstitutionalization of religion among the white working class / W. Bradford Wilcox, Andrew J. Cherlin, Jeremy E. Ueckler and Matthew Messel -- Part IV: the role of congregations -- Race, class, congregational embeddedness, and civic and political participation / Philip Schwadel -- Mega, medium and mini: size and the socioeconomic status composition of the American Protestant churches / David E. Eagle -- Part V: Religion and stratification across national borders -- Social stratification and church attendance in contemporary Italy / Gabriele Ballarino and Cristiano Vezzoni -- Religion, religiosity, and cultural stratification: theoretical links and empirical evidence / Tally Katz-Gerro and Mads Meier Jaeger -- 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 / Michael Wallace, Bradley R.E. Wright, Christine Zozula, Stacy Missari, Christopher M. Donnelly and Annie Scola Wisnesky.

Work behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential to financial security and general well-being. Although the benefits of receiving work-based rewards, such as income, benefits and retirement packages, are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly. Scholars have invested considerable resources in studying the processes that lead to differential work outcomes, and we know a considerable amount about what places people in the distributions of income and wealth. However, religion is a critical determinant of these outcomes that has attracted little attention. It seems logical that a person's general approach to the world - their religious beliefs or cultural orientation - would be an important determinant of their wealth. After all, the things we consider important and our operating assumptions about how the world does work and how it should work are certain to affect the goals we pursue, our decisions about critical life events, and, ultimately, how well-off we are. This volume brings together major thinkers in the field of religion, work and inequality to explore current research and to articulate an agenda for better understanding these essential social processes.