Playing with God : religion and modern sport / William J. Baker.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780674020443
- 0674020448
- Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Sports -- Religious aspects
- Christianity -- United States
- United States -- Religion
- Sports -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme
- Sports -- Aspect religieux
- Christianisme -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Religion
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies
- SPORTS & RECREATION / History
- Christianity
- Religion
- Sports -- Religious aspects
- Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- United States
- Das Religiöse
- Sport
- 201/.6796 22
- GV706.42 .B35 2007eb
- BE 3350
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-311) and index.
List of illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Old gods and games -- 2. The road to Brawnville -- 3. Praying and playing in the YMCA -- 4. Sweetening the Gospel with sport -- 5. When Dixie took a different stand -- 6. God and country games -- 7. For God, the Gipper, and the green -- 8. Sunday games -- 9. Playing on the fringe -- 10. Making a pitch for Jesus -- 11. Athletes for Allah -- 11. Teammates and soul mates -- 13. Gods and games today -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Print version record.
Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.
In English.
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