Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust
(Part of the Religion in North America Series)
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Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining as they draw upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work. He traces innovation and continuity in religious...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0253352371
ISBN13:9780253352378
Release Date:November 2008
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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