God In the stadium : sports and religion in America / Robert J. Higgs.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.Description: 1 online resource (402 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780813158068
- 0813158060
- 1322597359
- 9781322597355
- 0813119235
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- Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Sports -- United States
- College sports -- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
- Sports -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes
- GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- History
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sports Psychology
- College sports
- Manners and customs
- Sports
- Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- United States
- 796.01 23
- GV706.42 .H384 2015
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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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