With the rising cost of living, the energy crisis, and the increasing dependency on food banks in the UK, an exploration of the relationship between faith and its attached institutions and their members (and those outside of membership) who struggle to live well in the context of neo-capitalism, is necessary.This panel seeks to extend the notion of class beyond surface level ideas of cultural capital, sociological belonging, and scapegoating rhetorics and looks to explore class from a perspective of economic exploitation and the shared struggle of the majority to live in a system of competition, deceit and marginalization. This panel seeks to interrogate how religions navigate, support or dissent from the capitalocene (Joerg Rieger, 2022), in their ecclesiological practices, theological teachings, or sociological realities. How do believers align their faith to their unappreciated work, and what might work mean in the structure of the greater goals of the faith? How might religion relate to class identity, or how might it, or should it, subvert the class system and structures to build solidarity? Are there historic examples of faith creating belonging between people exploited by their work- links with trade unions or political parties that liberated communities? How might theologies such as the Prosperity Gospel or the implicit worship of Mammon in Western churches aide the capitalistic pursuit and success for the few?Chair: Joerg Rieger (Vanderbilt University) Speakers:Anupama Ranawana (University of St Andrews), The tools at the altar speak together: Theologies of solidarity in Christian Worker movements in India and Sri LankaCharlotte Jacobs (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Feminist Theology for the 99%? How not to skip Class in Intersectional TheologyBirgitta Kahl (Union Theological Seminary), Fratricide and Class antagonism: Rethinking primeval sin in Genesis 4Luke Larner (University of Roehampton), Solidarity and The Power of the Spirit: A theological reflection on Class StruggleSharaiz Chaudhry (University of Edinburgh), Islam and Capitalism: Towards Developing an Islamic Liberation Theology to Tackle Economic InequalityKeynote:Joerg Rieger (Vanderbilt University), Religion, Theology, Class, and Intersectionality