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Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust

Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard J. CallahanSeries:Religion in North AmericaPublish date:11/20/08Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253352378ISBN-10:253352371UPC:9780253352378Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian LivingBook Topic:History, Social IssuesSize:9.40 x 6.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC0X8XQMQV

Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust

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...

Series: Religion in North America
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253352378ISBN-10:253352371UPC:9780253352378Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian LivingBook Topic:History, Social IssuesSize:9.40 x 6.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC0X8XQMQV

Richard J. Callahan, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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