prinsiples and a higher social well-being. This is similar to critical understanding in that there is a struggle for economic and social justice from a disjuncture between the ideal and what is real. Lastly, the quest dimension combines both an open ended skepticism with a higher commitment to social well-being to make a stand on behalf of the oppressed in order to be commited to social and economic justice. This is similar to critical understanding in that the coersive, ideological, and hegemonic power that the dominant society has over the subaltern class is used as a form of discourse which directs action to creating alternative worldviews for themselves.An individual could use the concept of critical understanding and the quest dimension to develop an oppositional religious perspective that could promote resistance to domination. Discursive resources as a means of transforming dominant beliefs and ideologies can serve as resistence to domination in which subaltern classes and questers take the dominant ideologies, which is possible because of the open-ended dialogue with the comlexity of life's existential issues, and shape them to combat the dominant group.2. Religion provideed the miners with the social reference groups and plausibility structures required to develope a critical undertanding of their social and economic situation in a few distinct ways. Providing group resources within the free spaces as a form of plausability. These group resources included affirmative therapies (designed to halt any doubts in the belief system), rituals (that reiterate their beliefs), and idological legitimation (which confirmed these beliefs). In addition, religion served as a mediating variable in the social conflict of economical power and a catalyst for change, as well as a significant dimension of the politics of class formation. Also, religious leaders took an educative role as organic individuals in the struggle to create altern...
