Religion, Work, and Inequality

Religion, Work, and Inequality PDF Author: Lisa Keister
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1780523467
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
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. This title articulates an agenda for better understanding these social processes.

Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith

Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith PDF Author: Hansjörg Dilger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316514226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Examines how learning and teaching morality in Tanzania's faith-oriented schools is inextricably interwoven with the complex power relations of an interconnected world.

Networks, Work, and Inequality

Networks, Work, and Inequality PDF Author: Steve McDonald
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1781905398
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
This volume illuminates the processes by which social networks in work organizations can effectively generate, sustain and ameliorate social inequalities across individuals, firms and occupational fields. It offers valuable insights that inform researchers and policy makers regarding issues of workplace discrimination, diversity and innovation.

Religion and Social Problems

Religion and Social Problems PDF Author: Titus Hjelm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136854134
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged. This book fills this gap by providing a definitive work on the impact of religion on social problems, religion as a solution to social problems, and religion as a social problem in itself.

Religion and Inequality in America

Religion and Inequality in America PDF Author: Lisa A. Keister
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139916319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequality and well-being, combining and studying mediating factors in new and informative ways, focusing on critical and often understudied groups, and exploring the changing relationship between religion and inequality over time.

Religion and Inequality in America

Religion and Inequality in America PDF Author: Lisa A. Keister
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027551
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
Examines how social inequality is affected by religious beliefs and affiliation, with contributions in the fields of religion and sociology.

Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities

Religion, Equalities, and Inequalities PDF Author: Dawn Llewellyn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317067304
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Presenting cutting edge research on how religion can confront and obscure social inequalities in everyday life, Religion, Equalities and Inequalities argues that when religion is left out of social scientific analyses, it can result in incomplete analyses that conceal pathways to social inclusion and exclusion. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors who operate at the vanguard of theoretical and empirical work on how social structures of power, institutions and bodies can generate equalities and inequalities in religion, the collection shows how religion can enable and challenge the inequities that affect people’s everyday lives. Academics and students of religious studies, sociology, politics and social policy will all find this book offers useful insights into the relationship between religion and contemporary culture.

Sex and Secularism

Sex and Secularism PDF Author: Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
"Drawing on a wealth of scholarship by second-wave feminists and historians of religion, race, and colonialism, Scott shows that the gender equality invoked today as a fundamental and enduring principle was not originally associated with the term "secularism" when it first entered the lexicon in the nineteenth century. In fact, the inequality of the sexes was fundamental to the articulation of the separation of church and state that inaugurated Western modernity. Scott points out that Western nation-states imposed a new order of women's subordination, assigning them to a feminized familial sphere meant to complement the rational masculine realms of politics and economics. It was not until the question of Islam arose in the late twentieth century that gender equality became a primary feature of the discourse of secularism"-- Publisher's description

Ranking Faiths

Ranking Faiths PDF Author: James D. Davidson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442208554
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Ranking Faiths: Religious Stratification in America discusses how religion shapes access to power, privilege, and prestige in the U.S., both historically and today. James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle dispel the idea that the U.S. was founded on the principle of religious equality for all, documenting how religion has been a factor in the allocation of power from the colonial period through the present. From the time of the earliest settlements in America through today, the book demonstrates that some religious groups have had more access to economic, political, and social rewards than others, and they have benefited from laws and customs that have maintained religious inequality over time. While a few religious groups, such as Catholics and Jews, have experienced significant upward mobility over time, the social status of most has remained remarkably static over time. The book shows how religious inequalities developed, highlight where they remain in society today, and discuss what Americans can and should do about it.

Religion and Inequality in Africa

Religion and Inequality in Africa PDF Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350307386
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts. Some contributors undertake detailed analyses of how religion creates (and justifies) different forms of inequality that holds back individuals, groups and communities across the continent from flourishing, while others show how religion can also mitigate inequality in Africa. Topics addressed include gender inequality, economic inequality, disability, ageism and religious homophobia. Specifically focusing on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 10 to reduce inequality within and among countries, this book highlights the extent to which Africa's 'notoriously religious' identity needs to be taken into account in discourses on development.