Work and faith in the Kentucky coal fields : subject to dust / Richard J. Callahan, Jr.
2009
BR555.K4 C35 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Work and faith in the Kentucky coal fields : subject to dust / Richard J. Callahan, Jr.
Author
Callahan, Richard J., 1967-
ISBN
9780253352378 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0253352371 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0253352371 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
xv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Call Number
BR555.K4 C35 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
277.69/082
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 coalfields during the early twentieth 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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.
Series
Religion in North America.
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Table of 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.
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.