9781107027558 (hardback)

1107027551 (hardback)

9781107657113 (pbk.)

1107657113 (pbk.)

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.

Religion and social status > United States.

Social stratification > United States.

Equality > United States.