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.