Work and faith in the Kentucky coal fields
Richard J. Callahan · 2008
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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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Series
- Religion in North America
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 259
- ISBN
- 9780253352378
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