Sacred mountains : a Christian ethical approach to mountaintop removal /

Thompson, Andrew R. H.

Sacred mountains : a Christian ethical approach to mountaintop removal / Andrew R.H. Thompson. - Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Place matters : new directions in Appalachian studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Ethics in its place -- Overturning mountains -- Downstream impacts: environmental, economic, and social effects of mountaintop removal -- Environmental ethics and the construction of values -- Relation, revelation, and revolution: a theocentric approach to mountaintop removal -- The meanings of the mountains: discourses of power, identity, and destruction in the mountaintop removal debate -- All my holy mountain: power, identity, and reclamation from a theocentric perspective -- Loving the mountains: conclusions, challenges, and ways forward.



9780813166018 9780813166001


Ecotheology--Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining--Appalachian Region.


Electronic Books.

BT695 / .S237 2015