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God In the stadium : sports and religion in America / Robert J. Higgs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.Description: 1 online resource (402 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813158068
  • 0813158060
  • 1322597359
  • 9781322597355
  • 0813119235
  • 9780813119236
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God In The Stadium : Sports and Religion in America.DDC classification:
  • 796.01 23
LOC classification:
  • GV706.42 .H384 2015
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Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. From Sabbath Bans to Super Sunday; 2. The Old Knight in the New World; 3. Revolutionary Heroes and Fighting Parsons; 4. The Acrobatic Christianity of the Early Frontier; 5. The Soul of American Knighthood; 6. The Consecration of College Sports; 7. Manliness Moves West; 8. Playful Alternatives; 9. Sportianity versus Mountainity; 10. Builders of Character and the YMCA; 11. Cloning West Point on the American Campus; 12. Symbols of the Union of Caesar and Christ; 13. Power in the Sweat; 14. Field Generals of the Crusade.
15. Power in the Tube16. The Knight and the Shepherd; Works Cited; Index.
Summary: From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex. Beginning with the pla.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. From Sabbath Bans to Super Sunday; 2. The Old Knight in the New World; 3. Revolutionary Heroes and Fighting Parsons; 4. The Acrobatic Christianity of the Early Frontier; 5. The Soul of American Knighthood; 6. The Consecration of College Sports; 7. Manliness Moves West; 8. Playful Alternatives; 9. Sportianity versus Mountainity; 10. Builders of Character and the YMCA; 11. Cloning West Point on the American Campus; 12. Symbols of the Union of Caesar and Christ; 13. Power in the Sweat; 14. Field Generals of the Crusade.

15. Power in the Tube16. The Knight and the Shepherd; Works Cited; Index.

From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex. Beginning with the pla.

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