Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining by Witt, Joseph D.

Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813168128)

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Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining by Witt, Joseph D.

Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

$60.00
Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining by Witt, Joseph D.

Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

$60.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 mi

Author: Joseph D. Witt
ISBN-10: 0813168120
ISBN-13: 9780813168128
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2016
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.90d

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By Joseph D. Witt
By Joseph D. Witt
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Joseph D. Witt, assistant professor of religion at Mississippi State University, is a contributor to Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology.

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