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It has been said that Sunday is the most segregated day of the week. We know how segregated it is by race, but how is it segregated by class? How does social class condition people's religious experiences? When sociologists rank order religious denominations by the social class of their members, which ones would be at the top, which in the middle, and which at the bottom?

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It is true that it has been said that Sunday is the most segregated day of the week, but this segregation is just as much in relation to social class as it is to race. The fact that Sunday, and churches in particular, tend to be separate or segregated along racial lines, would support the fact that churches and religious denominations are segregated in relation to social ...

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