Sacred mountains : a Christian ethical approach to mountaintop removal /
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 con...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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Colección: | Place matters.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.