ative worldviews by replacing the dominant worldviews of the hierarical dominant class.Miners rewrote hymns to proclaim their ideas and feelings towards unionization in order to put into words what the community already knew, somewhat like the Objibwa hymn singers. They also sang to "help sustain the plausibility of miners' belief in the efficacy of collective struggle." In addition, the miners' transformed religiosity gave "cohesion and strength to a social class, and permitted the miners to resist the servility and feelings of inferiority that class oppression often breeds in the oppressed." The miners questioned religious orthodoxies that told them they had to adhere to the ideologies of the dominant class, thus using these orthodoxies and using them as discursive resources in order to form their own religious ideologies. They took discursive assumptions about what their religion told them, shaped their perspective in order to direct their actions to form their own beliefs about their economic situation. These instances are examples of how religious rituals added to the plausibility structure required to develop a critical understanding of their situation. ...
