Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields

Informationen zum Autor Richard J. Callahan Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Exploring themes of work and labour in everyday life, this work offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. It traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Appalachian Mountain Religion 2. Patterns of Life and Work 3. Coal Town Life 4. "It's About as Dangerous a Thing as Exists" 5. Power in the Blood 6. Suffering and Redemption Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Autorentext

Richard J. Callahan

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
Exploring themes of work and labour in everyday life, this work offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. It traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining.

Inhalt

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Appalachian Mountain Religion
2. Patterns of Life and Work
3. Coal Town Life
4. "It's About as Dangerous a Thing as Exists"
5. Power in the Blood
6. Suffering and Redemption
   Conclusion
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index