Making of Working-Class Religion

Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America''s workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city''s working-class Catholics, African American Protestants, and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and 1969.

Pehl embarks on an integrative view of working-class faith that ranges a...