Work and faith in the Kentucky coal fields : subject to dust / Richard J. Callahan, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callahan, Richard J., 1967-

Series:

Religion in North America.

Religion in North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal miners--Religious life.

Coal miners.

Kentucky--Religious life and customs.

Kentucky.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 o

Contents:

Introduction

Appalachian Mountain religion

Patterns of life and work

Coal town life

"It's about as dangerous a thing as exists"

Power in the blood

Suffering and redemption

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06626-9

9786612066269

0-253-00070-X

OCLC:

476241902