“…These themes include: - The impact of religious affiliation or religiosity on socioeconomic outcomes (e.g., Scheve and Stasavage ).
- The effects of religious attitudes and behaviors on sociopolitical attitudes (e.g., Brown et al. ; Brown, Kaiser, and Jackson ).
- The effects of social status and identity on religious attitudes (e.g., Kokosalakis ).
- The ways in which stratification systems of race, ethnicity, and class impact or are impacted by religion (e.g., Collett and Lizardo ; Frost and Edgell ; Kim ; Smith and Faris ).
- How religion impacts society at the macro level, namely, culture, politics, and the economy (Beckford ; Orsi ).
- How religion serves to legitimate or delegitimate sociopolitical systems (e.g., Billings and Scott ; Davidson and Pyle ; Lincoln ; Pyle and Davidson ; Wuthnow ).
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