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Sacred mountains : a Christian ethical approach to mountaintop removal / Andrew R.H. Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Place mattersPublisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813166018
  • 0813166012
  • 9780813166001
  • 0813166004
  • 9780813166698
  • 0813166691
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred mountainsDDC classification:
  • 261.8/8 23
LOC classification:
  • BT695.5 .T474 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Proposes a Christian ethical analysis of the controversial mining practice that has increasingly divided the US and has often led to fierce and even violent confrontations. Andrew R.H. Thompson provides a thorough introduction to the issues surrounding surface mining, including the environmental consequences and the resultant religious debates, and highlights the discussions being carried out in the media.
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Includes bibliographical references 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.

Print version record.

Proposes a Christian ethical analysis of the controversial mining practice that has increasingly divided the US and has often led to fierce and even violent confrontations. Andrew R.H. Thompson provides a thorough introduction to the issues surrounding surface mining, including the environmental consequences and the resultant religious debates, and highlights the discussions being carried out in the media.

English.

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