Sacrifice, Fate, and a Working-Class Heaven: Popular Belief in the Crowsnest Pass

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2017
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This thesis examines the relationship between religion and the working class in the coalmining communities of the Crowsnest Pass by studying attitudes towards death, dying, and the afterlife. While many people in the Crowsnest Pass rejected institutional religion in the early twentieth century, many members of the working-class articulated their own versions of religious and spiritual belief. Popular beliefs that are rooted in Christian thought were an important part of the lives of the Crowsnest Pass working class during the first half of the twentieth century as they dealt with high rates of death in their communities.
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Economics--History
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MacGrath, T. (2017). Sacrifice, Fate, and a Working-Class Heaven: Popular Belief in the Crowsnest Pass (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27701