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Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies) by Joseph D. Witt is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies) about?
In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has forced local citizens to redefine their identities, their connections to global economic forces, their pasts, and their futures. Religion is a key factor in the fierce debate over mountaintop removal; some argue that it violates a divine mandate to protect the earth, while others contend that coal minin
Who reads Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Joseph D. Witt
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813168128
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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