Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust Contributor(s): Callahan, Richard J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253352371 ISBN-13: 9780253352378 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2008 Annotation: Everyday religion as lived in the Appalachian coal fields |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Living - Social Issues |
Dewey: 277.690 |
LCCN: 2008013740 |
Series: Religion in North America |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" (1.30 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: 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 expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining, including the spaces and social structures of coal towns, the working bodies of miners, the anxieties of their families, and the struggle toward organized labor. Building on oral histories, folklore, folksongs, and vernacular forms of spirituality, this rich and engaging narrative recovers a social history of ordinary working people through religion. |