TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgs,Robert J.
TI  - God In the stadium: sports and religion in America 
SN  - 9780813158068
AV  - GV706.42 .H384 2015 
U1  - 796.01 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Sports
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - United States
KW  - College sports
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - GAMES
KW  - Gambling
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION
KW  - Business Aspects
KW  - Essays
KW  - History
KW  - Reference
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Sports Psychology
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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