Ever since H. Richard Niebuhrâ??s book The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929) there has been evidence that religious affiliation and class status are somehow connected.
In statistics published in a 2006 sociology textbook, this impression is confirmed, although the differences may not be as great as commonly assumed (see Kosmin & Keysar in References). Jews have a median family income of $72,000, Unitarians ($58,000) and Episcopalians ($55,000). Methodists are somewhere in the middle, commanding family incomes of $48,000. Jehovahâ??s Witnesses and the Church of God are at the bottom, with $24,000 and $26,000 respectively. The median household income for the United States in the same year was $51,144.
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